Word: dolls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dumb Crambo. Wilhelmina of The Netherlands once told her doll: "If you're not good, I'll turn you into a princess and then you'll have no one to play with." In Princess Elizabeth's life there was never any such grim circumscription. At the Duke's house in Piccadilly there were always a host of little cousins, lords and honorables for playmates. Devoted to horses (she pretended her legs were a team and called them Flycatcher and Harmony), she had her own pony at four. Her backyards were the family's vast...
...these exclamation points came a lone period: a terse message from the Philharmonic board, releasing Rodzinski not at the end of the season, as he had asked, but at once. His spirits only soared higher. Elatedly, he jounced his two-year-old son's big clown doll on his knee and told it the news; he grabbed his 75-year-old mother around the waist, waltzed her around the room and cried exultantly: "Babushka, now we are going to Chicago...
...Things in Glocca Morraf, hit Manhattan before the show did. The brightest of the ditties, When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich, fills out a hilarious dream fashion-show in which the sharecroppers doll up in fantastic mailorder finery. Actor Sharpe, specially imported from Eire, makes a lively Finian, and David Wayne an immensely engaging leprechaun. Finian's Rainbow is not lacking in good things. What it really needed was an implacable blue pencil...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 10 p.m., ABC). Ibsen's A Doll's House, with Dorothy McGuire, Basil Rathbone...
Magnificent Doll (Skirball-Manning; Universal-International) is a soft, oversimple Hollywood history lesson that shows how Ginger Rogers shaped the destiny of the Republic. Ginger plays the lady who is loved by-or profoundly influences the history-making careers of-James Madison, Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson...