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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spirit, with enough bravura to match the elegance and color of the costuming and the traditional splendor of the deep-cut sets. Ruth Ford, a fetching Roxane, knows the coquette routine thoroughly, though at times she plays it over-precious. The supporting characters are without depth, as the playwright drew them, and beyond Hiram Sherman's foppish Ragineau, there was little opportunity for scene stealing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 5/25/1946 | See Source »

...most ambitious of British cinema's popularity polls, sponsored by the Daily Mail, drew ballots from 547,767 of Britain's 30,000,000 cinemaddicts. Eligible for prizes: anything & anybody British appearing on the screen during the six war years. Prizes were "Silver Stars"-a slim silver figure on a globe, holding aloft a star. Winners & also-rans best known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Britain's Best | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

...people who walked quietly in the park last week remembered Vught, for many had spent months behind its electrified wire fence. They stopped walking and talking-but they did not stop remembering-when an automobile drew up and a dumpy old woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Woman in the House | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

...Yutang, broke the news in Boston that she had been secretly married a fortnight to Richard Biow, 26, son of a prosperous Manhattan adman. In the couple's top-floor flat near the elevated and Boston's waterfront, Husband Biow told the press: "I guess what drew us together was-well, just our interest in each other." Said surprised Philosopher Lin (The Importance of Living) of his literary daughter (Our Family) : "She will come home after a short period-I have no doubt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Holy Ned | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

...Navy hosts lost their first contest this year to Columbia and will be further handicapped by the ancient shell they drew in the pre-match lottery. MIT's varsity eight that last week trailed Crimson and Cornell shells will today have the advantage of rowing in the newest middle boat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Rowers Meet Nine Crews On Severn Today | 5/11/1946 | See Source »

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