Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Theatre Inc.) still holds up, after 33 years, as one of Shaw's most actable and entertaining plays. One reason may be that it contains almost nothing to weigh it down. It is Shaw on a holiday. His account of how a phonetics expert transforms a Cockney flower girl into the likes of a duchess is first & foremost good fun. It is a highly satirical, wryly Shavian fairy tale-but a fairy tale for all that...
From Russia, where censorship is still in flower, came the usual rebuttal. What set N. Baltisky talking (in New Times) was "fabricated . . . so-called news" that the A.P. was sending from Poland...
...Newfoundlanders have lived simply, in such villages as Heart's Content and Heart's Delight, Seldom Come By and Come By Chance. They dotted their 6,000 miles of deeply indented coastline and the spruce and fir-studded hinterland with modest frame houses, often surrounded by little flower and vegetable gardens. Most made their living by codfishing; others went down into the submarine depths of Bell Island to mine iron ore. Still others cut pulpwood for the paper mills at modern Grand Falls and Corner Brook...
...love with Patric Knowles. As a sort of cushion-shot to win his venomous wife (Ann Dvorak) back from her bullfighting Mexican lover (Arturo de Cordova), Knowles helps Dorothy masquerade as a Countess and gives her plenty of opportunity for song and romance with the bullfighter on the flower-strewn waters of Lake Xochimilco...
...York's mayor, who is retiring in only one sense, signed up for $1,000 a week (more than twice his salary as mayor) to do a coast-to-coast sustaining Sunday night commentary. Starting date: Jan. 6. Asked whether a new star was born, the Little Flower replied: "You may say that it is starting to twinkle...