Word: diana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...easy sensualism. Because his temperament accorded perfectly with his time and place, and because of his decorative genius, Boucher was showered with honors, made Peintre du Roi and Director of the Paris Academy. His fame perished in the French Revolution-to be eventually restored by posterity. Curiously, his Diana is not Diana at all, but Jupiter, who seduced Callisto in the guise of a goddess...
...members of the company, Fred Koch and Diana Frothingham, are especially imaginative and adept at fitting actions to their parts. As the most Wilde character, Koch minces and skips his way effectively through such numbers as "If You Want a Receipt," proving himself worthy as Gilbert's "ultra poetical, super aesthetical, out-of-the-way young man." Miss Frothingham, as the imposing spinster, Lady Jane, combines husky voice and long arms in an admirable mimic of the decaying but determined old maid...
...Starcross Story (by Diana Morgan) closed after one performance. The reason was not savage reviews-though they were mostly scowling-but a plagiarism suit. Slapped on the producers just before opening night, it charged that British Playwright Morgan had lifted the Starcross story from The Hidden Hero, a novel by Manhattan's Stanley Kauffmann, editor of Ballantine Books...
...Viscount Norwich, 63, British statesman-author; of a heart attack; aboard the French cruise ship Colombie, off Vigo, Spain. Educated at Eton and Oxford, he won the D.S.O. in World War I as an officer of the Grenadier Guards, came home to marry Britain's reigning beauty, Lady Diana Manners, over the objections of her father, the Duke of Rutland. Entering Parliament in 1924, Duff Cooper turned out a brace of authoritative biographies (Talleyrand, Haig), became Secretary for War under Conservative Stanley Baldwin (1935-37), was assailed as a "disgraceful scaremonger" for urging rearmament against Hitler. Appointed First Lord...
...Married. Diana Hopkins. 21. only daughter of the late adviser-confidant to F.D.R., Harry L. Hopkins; and Army 2nd Lieut. Allin Preston Baxter. 24: in Palisades...