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...story goes that Tallulah fell for Actor John Emery because he reminded her of John Barrymore, o-n whom she had had a girlish crush. In any case, she knew, immediately on seeing him at a summer playhouse in 1937, that she wanted him. She rushed backstage afterward, threw her arms around his neck and kissed him. As Emery recalls it: "She damn near knocked my tonsils down my throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: One-Woman Show | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...Princess last week attended one of her last state functions as a princess-she opened an exhibition on "The Netherlands Woman, 1898-1948." She looked almost girlish in a tiny white Dutch cap, a green print dress and sandals. Her unpainted nails nervously fingered the notes from which she read her speech: "In the past 50 years woman has finally had courage to descend from her pedestal and to go to work herself in those spheres for which she had formerly been deemed too delicate . . . She had not considered that her so-called most appropriate work-the task of being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: The Woman Who Wanted a Smile | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

There's nothing like a feminine smile and a girlish yell to dress up a dreary picket line, as strikers at the Squires meat packing plant in East Cambridge will find out this morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Democracy League, HLU, Bolster Picket Lines | 5/11/1948 | See Source »

Barbara Ann, with a peaches-&-cream complexion, saucer-size blue eyes and rosebud mouth, is certainly pretty enough. Her light brown hair (golden now that she bleaches it) falls pageboy style on her shoulders. She weighs a trim, girlish 107 Ibs. neither as full-bosomed as a Hollywood starlet nor as wide-hipped as most skaters. She looks, in fact, like a doll which is to be looked at but not touched. But Barbara Ann Scott is no fragile mammet. She is the women's figure-skating champion of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ice Queen | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...wish. The thing's glutted with them. But the plot--ah, the plot--it keeps gooing in. Marsha Hunt maudles the part of the mother who plans a concert pianist's career for her son, Tony. Miraculous point of the picture is the maintenance of Miss Hunt's girlish appearance throughout Tony's growth to manhood. Only when dewy-eyed Miss Hunt hears Tony break from Bach into jazz does a great gob of cornstarch fall on her hair and remain from that day forward...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 12/3/1947 | See Source »

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