Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...everyone's relief, the secret was out. Last week a Fort Worth matron, Mrs. Ruth Annette Subbie, 45, answered her telephone, sobbing with excitement, screamed out the identity of "Miss Hush" (Dancer Martha Graham), and won the biggest heap of prizes in radio history: $21,500 worth. After last fortnight's broad hints (TIME, Dec. 8), the mystery of Miss Hush was no longer very mysterious. For Dancer Graham it had been a big publicity binge. For the March of Dimes it had been worth at least $350,000. For Listener Subbie it was more of the same...
...lifting "You Were There" the strongest features of a convincing fantasy. Coward, writing for Miss Lawrence, is consistently excellent as he always is when he has his players in mind. It is unformatted that he does not play opposite her as in the original production, for although Graham Payn is a competent imitator of Coward, Coward performing Coward still seems to be the happiest arrangement all around...
...musical period piece, and an "interlude with music." This last could more accurately be called a modern view of British vaudeville. It is the most dazzling of the three, and presents Miss Lawrence in one of the great comical feats of recent times. She and her able partner, Graham Payn, playing a vaudeville team, appear as rod-headed cockney sailors, and go through a song, dance and joke routine that can only be described as out of this world. The play progresses through a scene in their dressing room, where Miss Lawrence buffoons her way about the stage in various...
...Summer, comes The Times of Melville and Whitman, a rich portrait of U.S. literary life shortly before & after the Civil War. Hopping nimbly from region to region, Brooks lovingly sketches their literary manners-the rash of reform movements in New York, "attractional harmony and passional hygiene . . . water cure and Graham Bread"; the burly tall tales of the Far West where Joaquin Miller, "the greatest liar living . . . half a mountebank and all the time a showman," turned out crude, vigorous sketches of pioneer life; the sad whimsies of the post bellum South, where Constance Fenimore Woolson's "imagination lingered over...