Word: facings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are those who would as soon miss their own weddings as a Katharine Cornell play. Her yearning, mobile face is the contemporary theatre's testament of beauty, and only Helen Hayes can challenge her as Broadway's First Lady. Having achieved her own producing company, having played Juliet-ultimate role of all English-speaking actresses-Actress Cornell offers this week, at 41, what is usually the swan song of distinguished old age: an autobiography...
...resolved to keep mum. Dozens of names, from Greta Garbo's to Alexander Woollcott's, from David Belasco's to Orson Welles's stud the pages of her book, but none of them-not even her husband's, Director Guthrie McClintic -ever becomes a face. Toward other actors she is virtually all smiles. About nothing, about no one, is she pert, mettlesome, unexpected. Compared to the First Lady of Broadway, the First Lady of the Land is, six days a week, a purveyor of shuddersome scandals...
Willy-nilly, Katharine Cornell remains the star type. She is not unversatile, and she is richly gifted: her plastic face, moving voice, vivid gestures, her taste for grandiose and romantic roles, proclaim the "star" personality. When that personality cannot be directly, physically, communicated, as in her life story, it dries up like ink on a blotter...
Lying in a funerary chamber of white limestone, the mummy was covered from head to foot with gold ornaments. On its face was a gold mask in the shape of a hawk's head. Two badly decomposed skeletons nearby, one wearing a carnelian necklace, were presumed to be those of servants. The mummy itself reposed in a silver coffin, the first ever found in the burial chambers of the Pharaohs. In ancient Egypt silver was called "white gold," and, because it was rarer there than real gold, was held more precious...
...Burchett, a high-school Latin teacher in Philadelphia, mortally fears Jews, radicals, labor leaders. To defend herself, she used to carry two guns, a six-shooter in her handbag, an automatic strapped to her leg under her skirt. Once she brandished a pistol in a newsman's face, declared: "Those Communists will never take me alive." Disarmed by the Board of Education, she hired two bodyguards, scattered scarehead pamphlets by the thousands, tried to break up meetings of "Reds," invited teachers to join an "American National Socialist Party." Last week her pupils at West Philadelphia High decided Miss Burchett...