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William Shakespeare had had better weeks. In Stratford-on-Avon, a fire in the town hall destroyed the famed Gainsborough painting of the Bard's bust being leaned on by Actor David Garrick. In Chicago, Music Boss James Caesar Petrillo declared that Maurice Evans' Hamlet with incidental music was not a drama but a musical (and thus the incidental musicians got a pay boost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 16, 1946 | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

Kitty (Paramount), a lively 18th-Century costume romance, introduces a fullblown cockney waif (Paulette Goddard) to the studio of none other than the great Thomas Gainsborough (Cecil Kellaway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 25, 1946 | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

...artist sniffs, sends Kitty off to an adjacent powder room to wash. Then he puts her in position (with suitable decolletage), cocks a critical eye, takes up an artistic stance, begins to sketch. It is only a matter of time before Kitty's portrait hangs with Gainsborough's Blue Boy at the Royal Academy, and she, a great London lady, drives the peerage half-mad with her charms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 25, 1946 | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

...Ceteris Partibus. In London Archbishop Bernard Griffin, youngest cardinal designate (46), retrieved the flowing cappa magna of the late Cardinal Kinsley from the Gainsborough Film Studios (to whom they had been lent for a Paganini movie), had it altered to fit, set out for Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: On the Roads to Rome | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

...Grey (Gainsborough-Universal) is a heavily romantic, British-made melodrama tailored for the matinee trade. Adapted from a sugary, swashbuckling novel by the late Lady Eleanor Smith, it is a Regency costume piece containing all the time-tested materials: a gypsy fortuneteller; a scowling, black-browed villain; a gushy diary kept by a doe-eyed girl named Clarissa who munches candied violets; a wavy-haired hero with beautiful strong teeth; a fire-breathing adventuress who dotes on discord and low-cut gowns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 24, 1945 | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

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