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Died. Frances Heenan ("Peaches") Browning Hynes Civelli Willson, 46, who as a meaty teen-ager (15 years, 163 Ibs.) married (1926) sack-shaped moneybags Edward West ("Daddy") Browning, 51, six months later set the 1920s roaring at the decade's wildest divorce suit, in which she testified that Daddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 3, 1956 | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

FRANCES TAYLOR

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 20, 1956 | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

Conceivably Hopalong and Superman may overstimulate young imaginations. But a steady diet of such modern-reader characters as Dick and Jane may result in something worse. To Mrs. Frances C. Sayers, former superintendent of work with children at the New York Public Library, one reason so few (17%) Americans read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Violent & the Bland | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

The three leads, Margaret, Faust, and Mephistopheles, make the most of their lines and play beautifully together. The brilliance of Frederick Warriner as Mephistopheles stood out like a sizzling fire cracker. He played a green and sparkling devil of serpentine grace and satanic power. A superb mime, Warriner walked the...

Author: By Marge Stern, | Title: Wellesley's Dramatic 'Faust' Employs Weird Stage Effects | 8/2/1956 | See Source »

The Gishes both gave creditable performances--Lillian as Miss Madrigal and Dorothy as Mrs. St. Maugham--although they seemed somehow reluctant to lose themselves in their parts and to forget that after all, they are the Gishes. Lillian especially kept the passions within her a little too well hidden. Charron...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: The Chalk Garden | 7/26/1956 | See Source »

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