Word: gwendolyne
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...sense of Jack's earnestness, his utterly sincere hypocrisy, his damnable stuffiness; Mr. Clark copes somewhat better with Algy, but cannot quite hit off his incorrigibly cheeky lightmindedness. As a result, they appear as a set of almost interchangeably cheerful young men. Gretchen Kanne misses the hothouse bloom of Gwendolyn, who exists in and through Society like an elegant bacterium in its nutrient broth. (In the midst of an ineffably decorous cat-fight, Gwendolyn accepts a cup of tea from her rival with the aside, "Detestable girl! But I require tea!") (italics mine...
Word of Paradise. In Honolulu, the Dole Pineapple Co. received a job application from Gwendolyn Kuuleikailialo-haopiilaniwailauokekoaulumahiehiekealao-naonaopiikea* Kekino...
...group of white students who scrubbed the drive clean. Said one: "This reflects on the name of the school, and we don't want that." Winston-Salem's only integrated Negro student entered, passed about 100 white students. Not one offered insult. A few smiled hello. Gwendolyn Yvonne Bailey, 15, walked into the school auditorium and quietly took her place among her fellow students...
...Holy Macirony . . ." Last week Art Student Gwendolyn Bannister, 22, and Olympic Track Star Lee Calhoun, 24, were one of five couples joined together, as the show's prize blooper went, "in holy macirony." The ceremony opened with headlines screaming, TV MARRIAGE A PROBLEM, TRACK STAR'S DILEMMA. Calhoun's dilemma had been posed earlier by the Amateur Athletic Union, which charged him with "attempt to capitalize on athletic fame" and threatened his amateur standing. Cried Producer Roger Gimbel: "This is a terrible thing. The A.A.U. is intruding upon the pursuit of happiness." Gimbel also said the show...
While awaiting the first curtain of Quadrille, the playgoer can glance over the program and figure out in the main what form the play is going to take. Listed on the bill are a Reverend Edgar Speven, a Gwendolyn (His Daughter) and a Catchpole. There is also a noblewoman with an awesome surname and a placid given one, The Marchioness of Heronden (Serena). Since this part is played by Lynn Fontanne and since the author is Noel Coward, the playgoer can settle back with complacence. The play may be several rungs down from Wilde, but it will...