Word: gays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...divine couple." After the wedding, glitter returned to Mother's life; she quit the dress shop, rented a penthouse in Paris. Meanwhile, at home in Palm Beach, Bob Sweeny began spending more time on golf, less around the house. Despite the birth of two daughters and the gay social life, Society Matron Joanne soon felt "as if I had been missing out on life." She agonized over her diet, sought new companionship on the gaudier fringes of the Palm Beach sporting set. "Remember," Sweeney once explained, "she is young, very young." But in 1953, he won an uncontested divorce...
...Redlegs spent two seasons learning to make the inches work for them, then last year inched their way to within two games of the pennant (and the Dodgers). Cincinnati fans recognized the new spirit early in the season, and it was catching. Operating with gay abandon, the fans stuffed ballot boxes so enthusiastically that when the All-Star game was held in July, five of the National League starters wore Redleg uniforms...
...Happy Road (MGM) leads from a Swiss international school for children to gay Paree, and its steeplechase is a fairly pleasant mixture of the classic slapstick hide-and-go-seek elements of old-time Keystone comedies. The hiders, on the lam from teachers and texts, are two kids, ably though often too cutely played by Bobby Clark and Brigitte Fossey. (Pipes Bobby: "I don't think it's good for parents to be left alone too much!") The seekers are Bobby's widowed father (ProducerDirector Gene Kelly), a Paris-based U.S. businessman who sneers at the French...
...hope the Festival Committee will not heed the critic of the Globe, who complained that a light and gay opera ought to have been picked for warm weather. I am sick of the idiotic policy of calling a moratorium on serious plays and operas of high quality during the summer months. The audiences certainly appreciate the chance of seeing this fine work, heat...
...requisite precision. The work is a ballet-burlesque, brilliantly choreographed after Balanchine, wonderfully costumed, and impeccably danced by Todd Bolender, Francisco Moncion, Herbert Bliss and John Mandia as a fox, rooster, cat and ram, respectively. Their singing counterparts, also excellent, were tenors John MeCollum and John King, baritone Robert Gay, and bass Herbert Gibson...