Word: douglass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meet Dancer Adele Astaire, Kokoschka was taken backstage after one of her London performances of Lady Be Good (with brother Fred). She was the toast of Mayfair, and Kokoschka asked her to pose. Now 59 and the trim-figured wife of Wall Street Broker Kingman Douglass, Adele recalls that she "thought it would be fun. I was cunning then-I was Alice in Wonderland." With her Scotty Wassie, she went to Kokoschka's Kensington studio twice a week for two months, dolled up in a Madame Jenny dress of blue velvet with a pale, pleated skirt. To her annoyance...
...addition to a draggy book, there are tunes that can only turn rather untuneful to avoid seeming reminiscent, and lyrics that are ruggedly mediocre. Stephen Douglass and Lois O'Brien look nice as the lovers; Barbara Perry tries to help as Rumple's girl-or girl Friday; and Gretchen Wyler, with sass and sex enough for most roles, seems wasted as a girl with psychiatric problems that conceivably grew out of the show...
...Omnibus proved Madison Avenue more wrong than ever. With two-thirds of the show sold (to Aluminium Ltd. and Union Carbide), and the other third bid for, Omnibus kicked off with a slickly attractive white-shoe production of Stover at Yale, a tongue-in-dimpled-cheek musical adaptation by Douglass (Damn Yankees) Wallop of the old Owen Johnson stories. Much of the play lived up to Alistair Cooke's introduction of it as "a gentle thing, both odd and funny." When the boola overflowed with the fun of the Turkey trot, ragtime and jagtime at Mory...
...this musical. The lyrics of Frank Reardon are a little more inane than most; but Earnest G. Schweikert's music is acceptable commercial fare and the dances staged by Bob Hamilton are at least as lively as those on any television show. Thus Eddie Foy, who plays Rumple, Stephen Douglass, the cartoonist, and Gretchen Wyler, as a sex-smitten gag writer, have at least acceptable material with which to work. For Miss Wyler, a fine comedienne and dancer, it is nearly good enough, but the show as a whole can scarcely be called a success...
...Krogness (H) tied the high hurdles record of 15.4, while Mal K. Douglass (Y) became the first freshman to win an event in the series, taking the two-mile in 9:32.2, and giving the home forces their first victory in this event...