Word: filles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Widow in Leos Janacek's Jenufa, made her debut at the Metropolitan last spring as Eboli, will return there for several guest appearances next season. In Europe she has been such a spectacular overnight success, notes one British critic, that "she has only to be announced to fill the house...
...boredom." Jane McArthur brings sparkling eyes, a beautiful pony-tail coiffure and the buoyancy of Susan Strasberg to the part of the 20-year-old niece. As the elder niece Eva, Monica Lovett shows her inward sadness and disillusionment in good Donna Reed fashion. Lance Cunard and Dalila Mockapetris fill out smaller roles...
...publishers are currently offering two seasonal pick-me-ups, one a reissue entitled House Party (originally published in 1954) and the other a collaboration with Dorothy (The Crystal Boat) Erskine called The Pink Hotel. Neither equals the highly carbonated humors of Auntie Mame, but each is bubbly enough to fill the summer air with burps of spasmodic mirth...
...Edward N. Gadsby, 57, was nominated to fill out the remaining term (until June 5, 1958) of Securities & Exchange Commission Chairman J. Sinclair Armstrong, who has resigned to become Assistant Secretary of the Navy for finance. A conservative New Englander (Amherst, '23), SECommissioner Gadsby worked for New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. before turning to the law (New York University, '28) and a ten-year berth in the Manhattan law firm of Rushmore, Bisbee & Stern. Moving back to New England, he practiced privately in North Adams, Mass. until 1947, when he became a Massachusetts commissioner of public utilities. Though...
Author Ward's most astute observation is that the West may not be able to export the idea of individual dignity and freedom without the Judaeo-Christian metaphysics to which it is linked. She gingerly hopes that a deistic, syncretistic "perennial philosophy" may fill...