Word: garlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Midwest showed signs of vigor. Hamlin Garland had begun to portray farm life as something more, or less, than an idyl. In the Far West lived the gnarled misanthrope, Ambrose Bierce, writing creepy Gothic tales that pointed back to Poe and forward to Faulkner. But in general, Brooks acknowledges, it was a time of decidedly minor craftsmen, a dry season between fertile ones in American writing. The turn came as the old century flickered...
...Manhattan, the critics, the columnists and the cash customers were all bubbling with delight over a return to the good old days. Two-a-day vaudeville was back at the old Palace Theater, and there was resounding applause for Judy Garland, who had brought it there. For 75 minutes on opening night Judy burned up the boards with "electric excitement," paused occasionally to wipe her brow with a bright scarf ("It isn't very ladylike, but it's very necessary"), and sang such old favorites as Somewhere, over the Rainbow and The Trolley Song. One critic predicted...
...Judy Garland Sings (MGM, 8 sides). Judy in her best style in some tunes from MGM's old sound tracks: Get Happy, Johnny One Note, Look for the Silver Lining, Who and four others...
After almost five months in Britain, Cinemactress Judy Garland arrived in Manhattan chubbier by several pounds. Said she: "Right now I'm overdoing this pleasingly plump business. But I don't care. I never felt better in my life. Special dieting to knock off the poundage in a hurry for a picture is really murder. That's what was wrong with me early this year when I had a nervous breakdown. And for that reason I certainly sympathize with people like Mario Lanza. This time I'm going to take diet and reducing much slower...
...schoolteachers on the coast-a doughty and determined counter-revolutionary with a passion for sound minds, manners and morals. Today, the three Buckley schools have 300 pupils-the sons & daughters of bankers, musicians, scriptwriters, lawyers, and Hollywood stars (among them: Alice Faye, Anita Louise, Judy Garland). And last week 115 Buckley students showed up to begin a ten-week summer program of sports, hand crafts and nature study...