Word: havilland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eight paragraphs of praise on the play itself, on G.B.S., on Candida as his favorite Shaw heroine, on most of the players, and added kind words for the staging and the set. His review ended with a one-sentence stinger: "The title role is taken by Miss Olivia de Havilland, a motion picture actress." Tribune Critic Claudia Cassidy found Olivia "an interruption, nothing more." The verdict of the actress' 27-month-old son, Benjamin, made it unanimous: "The curtain goes up and my mommy comes out and talks and talks and talks...
This air show, watched by U.S. Air Force procurement officers, was a dash of superfluous salesmanship by De Havilland Aircraft of Canada, Ltd. to mark the first deliveries on a big order of Beavers for the U.S. Air Force. U.S. experts were sold on the Beaver early this year when they tested the plane. They ordered 109 to start, now have plans to buy up to 750 of the rugged, $29,000 planes for battlefield air-evacuation and courier duty...
Easy to fly on wheels, floats or skis, with a 1,875-lb. work load and a maximum 630-mile cruising range, the Beaver is an ideal frontier plane. Canadian bush airlines clamored for them as soon as the first one came off the assembly line in 1947. De Havilland sold Beavers in Finland, Indonesia, Colombia, Malaya, Rhodesia and Chile. Now better than half the plant's entire output (currently 12 planes a month) will be delivered to the U.S. Army and Air Force...
...wife. The result is a hybrid with neither the grace of fiction nor the substance of biography, but it ought to make a ripsnorting movie. Darryl Zanuck, foresighted in such matters, has already bought the film rights and is thinking about Gregory Peck as Andrew Jackson, Olivia de Havilland as the President's little woman...
Last week Olivia de Havilland opened in the role of Bernard Shaw's "Candida." One Richard Shepard, making his first professional appearance, stole the show as the precocious Eugene Marchbanks. This weekend Mady Christians is appearing in "Black Chiffon"; the week of July 30th Claudette Colbert will star in a new play by Noel Coward entitled "Island Fling"; the week of August 18th Roody MacDowell will appear in "The Youngest"; and on August 20th Imogene Coca, of television notoriety, appears in "Happy Birthday...