Word: gays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expanded College Pistol Club begins its season tonight. Ebenozer Gay '55, of Lowell announced a change in H.A.A. regulations that will allow students under 21 to "discharge firearms" will permit a larger membership...
This is the most fabulous place in the world," sighed Marlene Dietrich. " Any where else-pouf, I would not .go. But this is different. Las Vegas is the only gay place left in the world. This is how Paris used to be before the war." Marlene, 48, was preparing for a three-week engagement at the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas next month, for the record-breaking stipend of $90,000. Her opening night has been set for Dec. 15, an arrangement that thriftily divides her paydays into two tax years...
...Renoir's Venus Victorieuse: 40 million Frenchmen have read, with relief, that the monstrosity pictured in TIME, Oct. 12, is now safely in the good city of Portland, Ore. We, the people of France, do not object to gay, young "bronze creatures" romping around our lawns, as long as they are graceful and lithe of limb. But the heavy, rotund and adipose lady was a clear case for a severe reducing diet and Turkish baths...
Unlike its Italian counterparts, The Beggar's Opera thrives on provincialism rather than pomp. British poet John Gay first wrote the operetta to chide government corruption and provide jobs for the vaudevillians displaced by sopranos and baritones from across the Channel. He felt that simple folk ballads sung with a minimum of gesticulation and vibretto could be as effective as full-range opera. With some perceptive acting, imaginative directing and photography the film version of Gay's work just about proves he was right...
...Beggar's Opera is a far better film than the name Gay gave his work implies. For any lack in magnificence is more than made up in the vigour of its British balladry...