Word: dolls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Doll's House (by Henrik Ibsen, new acting version by Thornton Wilder; produced by Jed Harris). Of late years Ibsen's famed Doll's House has been gathering dust in the theatre's attic. But shrewd Producer Jed Harris thought that all the old play needed was a thorough dusting. As house cleaner he got Author Thornton Wilder, whose used his broom with a will, beat all the grimy old-fashionedness out of the dialogue, threw 15 unnecessary minutes right out the window. Producer Harris opened his refurbished Doll's House at last summer...
...star was Comedienne Ruth Gordon, who made a great success last season in Wycherley's scandalous Country Wife. She plays Nora in .4 Doll's House as a childlike, skipping chucklehead, a unique individual rather than the social type Ibsen meant her to symbolize, thus helps transform the play from an outmoded indictment into a moving character study. As Nora's complacent spouse, Dennis King, hero of operettas, farces and romantic dramas, plays Ibsen as well as he sings Lehar and Friml. For all of Torvald's prissy traits, Actor King makes him pitiable...
...Bedaux, eliminated themselves as completely as possible from an important place in the history of 1937. Their names would scarcely have been mentioned in print at year end, had not London's blatant Daily Express been filled by a story of how the Duchess sent a doll last week to the Miners' Federation of South Wales where King Edward VIII once popularized himself, declaring "Something must be done for Wales!" (TIME, Nov. 30, 1936, et seq.). The doll, instructed the Duchess, is not to be raffled off for charity but given to the child of an unemployed Welsh...
...Disney, the business brain trust of the Disney enterprises, surveyed Snow White's final bill of $1,600,000, observed: "We've bought the whole damned sweepstakes." In the Disney film, Snow White, the delicate stepdaughter of the Queen, is a dark-haired girl with a doll's oval beauty and a voice like a chime of bells. The Queen, envious of Snow White's beauty, hid her in the scullery. But though her work was grimy. Snow White was happy. She dreamed of a Prince who would some day come and take her away. Instead...
...Onion Association and chairman of a committee "to Lift the Onion Eater from the Category of Social Lepers." Owning his own company almost entirely, he lives prosperously with his wife in a colonial house at Manhattan Beach, is particularly proud of a swimming pool, a tennis court, a lavish doll house he has built for his four children. Says he: "I give them everything I didn...