Word: dolls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Though she made her debut as Nibs in Peter Pan, no play could represent her, as actress or woman, worse. She found her roles as the gutsy young wife in Saturday's Children, the gaunt and twisted Mattie Silver in Ethan Frame, the restless, rebellious Nora of A Doll's House, the prancing, hoydenish Mrs. Pinchwife of the lewd Restoration comedy, The Country Wife. Tense, biting, almost distractingly alive, Actress Gordon would make her presence felt at the height of a hurricane...
...Doll Who Came Alive- Enys Tregarthen...
...wooden-faced doll named Judy Splinters muscled in on Charlie McCarthy's business on NBC's Eddie Cantor program last week. Furthermore, she is coming back this week and may be around for some time...
Along the road, the principals sing and dance Oh, You Beautiful Doll, For Me And My Gal, Till We Meet Again, Ballin' the Jack, How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm. The contagious little tune Ballin' the Jack, as delivered by Miss Garland and Mr. Kelly (helped by Miss Garland's racehorse legs and by a superbly realistic vaudeville audience), is worth the price of admission...
...Rubber dolls are no more. Their stuffed substitutes will have fewer elastic joints, movable eyes, mamma voices, eating and diaper-wetting apparatuses. Doll clothing, always in the latest style, features narrow skirts, narrow belts, simple lines, in line with WPB directives for adult clothing...