Word: gilberts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Like Gilbert & Sullivan's Pooh-Bah, the President stepped over to the French side of his office where the co-Prince could not hear him, and announced that he no longer recognized the leaders of Andorra's Council of the Valleys, who governed in his name. The Pyrenees principality promptly threatened to get even by issuing new postage stamps franked "Sovereign Republic of Andorra...
...Italy's Marchesa Olga di Gresy, cited for her Mirsa sweaters; Paris' Gilbert Orcel for his hats; Manhattan's Ben Sommers for his Capezio footwear; Manhattan's Charles James for his dresses...
...film The Four-Poster, starring Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer. He is eager to move on to full-length animated pictures, and hopes to rival Disney's Cinderella and Peter Pan with adult treatments of classic stories, such as Volpone and Helen of Troy, as well as Gilbert & Sullivan operettas...
...November 1951, Audrey opened at Manhattan's Fulton Theater in the title role of Gilbert Miller's production of Gigi, a sophisticated Gallic story of a 16-year-old French tomboy who dreams of bourgeois marriage while her female relatives train her to become a rich man's mistress. Next day the New York Times's Critic Brooks Atkinson wrote: "Miss Hepburn is the one fresh element in the performance. She is an actress; and, as Gigi, she develops a full-length character from artless gaucheries in the first act to a stirring emotional climax...
Died. Darrell Fancourt, 65, famed British D'Oyly Carte bass-baritone, best known for his title role in Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado, which he sang more than 3,000 times; in London...