Word: gown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Autobiography. In Boston, the Globe ran a classified ad: "For sale-wedding gown, never used, size 14; baby carriage, reasonable...
...expansive Passacaglia, Opus i, Six Pieces, Opus 6. The work detailed Mary's discard of the symbols of statecraft, her hopeless duel with Elizabeth, her course to death on the scaffold. Brilliantly costumed, the work had some stunning theatrical effects: the sudden revelation of Elizabeth in shimmering gold gown as her high-backed throne turns slowly to the audience, the ritualistic tennis game played with gold rackets and balls by Elizabeth and Mary. If the work of Choreographer Graham sometimes seemed pretentious in its symbolism, it was redeemed by the performance of Dancer Graham, who moved sometimes with...
...took my prayer book to the contest," gasped the striking girl in the white evening gown, "but I never thought I'd win it." Last week Sophomore Nancy Street, 19, was indeed voted Miss Indiana University in the first beauty contest she ever entered. Real reason for her surprise: Nancy is a Negro, the first of her race to become a beauty queen on the Indiana campus. A speech and theater major, she defeated 14 white coeds with her good looks and a dance interpretation of Harlem Nocturne, will now compete for the state's Miss Indiana title...
Destry Rides Again (book by Leonard Gershe; music and lyrics by Harold Rome; direction and choreography by Michael Kidd) ups curtain on the Last Chance Saloon with the lady that's known as Frenchy (Dolores Gray) sashaying forward in a red-sequined gown to treat some of her plug-ugly admirers to a song. Within minutes she shoots the hat off one heckler, wraps a whipstalk around the skull of another. Then her saloonkeeper boy friend (Scott Brady) proceeds to give the sheriff an incurable case of lead poisoning. It is obviously high time for law and order...
...station wagon stepped the 23-year-old Dalai Lama, God-King of Tibet, wearing a beatific smile but sniffling slightly from a head cold. His eyes were bright and warm behind orange-rimmed glasses, and he wore the simple russet gown of a high lama, with no special marks of rank. Surrounded by his mother, brother and sister and by Cabinet ministers and officials, the Dalai Lama smiled and nodded as he moved slowly by the news photographers...