Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shaw's own attitude is close to Burgoyne's. This doesn't always come through in the Lyric Theatre's production which makes the humor often seem incidental. Directress Grace Tuttle has gotten some very entertaining seperate scenes however--especially in the last act--and these make the play good...
...first public outing with Grace, the Prince rolled forth in his green Chrysler Imperial, was roadblocked by some 50 photographers, angrily retaliated by barring the lensmen from his palace and Wednesday's civil wedding (the religious ceremony is two days later). Wedding gifts kept pouring in, karat upon karat. From the principality itself and the Casino came, according to Newshen Inez Robb, "some basic or all-purpose diamonds": a $224,000 set of gem-crusted earrings, bracelet, necklace, ring and clips...
When a Russian censor bottles up some of his copy, the Baltimore Sun's Moscow Correspondent Howard M. Norton often lets off steam in an uncensored letter to his mother, Mrs. Grace Murphey who lives in Miami. A few weeks ago Mrs. Murphey showed the letters to a friend, Miami Herald Reporter Phil Fortman. The Herald promptly announced a series based on them, including such nuggets-censored out of Norton's dispatches-as an account of worshipful Muscovites braving the new line against Stalin to visit his mausoleum...
...Charles Edward ("Electric Charlie") Wilson, 69, former General Electric Co. president, and wartime defense mobilizer, announced that he will retire next month as board chairman of W. R. Grace & Co. He became a director of Grace in 1952, chairman last year...
Jacques Tati is a tall, gangling Frenchman who moves like a badly-controlled marionette and possesses a real talent for taking pitfalls with the least possible grace. A veteran of the music halls, Tati practices a kind of humor which is not at all subtle, Gallic, or witty, but still enormously funny...