Word: glamorous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many readers who commented on the brute ugliness of Rumania's Communist Boss Ana Pauker after the cover story came this reminder: Ana Pauker has no glamor But it's very often said That her sickle and her hammer Make a fellow lose his head...
Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe gave a reporter a hint of what Hollywood glamor girls talk about between performances on the set. Sample noted during the shooting of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, in which she is starred with Jane Russell: "Jane, who is deeply religious, tried to convert me to her religion [she is actually nondenominational], and I tried to introduce her to Freud. Neither...
...settings and lighting, JoMielziner should be taking most of the bows at the final curtain. His cat walks and lighting bridges rise and lower, the entire stage shifts to the right to reveal the theatre wings, and his sets alternate between elaborate glamor and backstage authenticity. Because of his thoughtful staging, the confusing musical-within-a-musical plot is somewhat untangled...
Beer & Sherry. The one thing London U. lacks is glamor. Its biggest tourist attraction is the fully dressed skeleton of Jeremy Bentham that still glowers from its glass case in the men's staff common room at University College. London students are likely to drink beer instead of sherry, and less than half of them live at their colleges. The rest live at home or in lodging houses about town...
Died. Katharine Brush, 49, glamor-girl bestselling novelist (Young Man of Manhattan, Red-Headed Woman) of the post-World War I speakeasy era; after an operation; in Manhattan. A Boston movie critic at 17, .she was twice married, twice divorced. In the early '30s she moved into a flossy, Joseph Urban-designed Manhattan duplex apartment and settled down at a 15-ft. semicircular desk. But the Depression had left its mark on facile Writer Brush. She began to analyze her own brittle-youth-of-the-'20s stories, and her once glib pen slowed down and stalled. "When...