Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just before 6 o'clock on the evening of Sept. 1, the Air Force's weather forecast was justified; across Carswell Air Force Base at Fort Worth, Texas rolled a thunderstorm. Comfortably indoors, or away on holiday pursuits, the command did not worry about the reason for the base's existence: its mighty 6-36 intercontinental bombers were snugly tied down on the flying line, and in windblown Texas they had stayed safe in gales of 60 m.p.h. Then, without warning, the big storm...
...Besides this director Albert Marre has resigned, taking with him Jan Farrand, his wife and the Brattle's leading actress. According to the theatre's general manager, Bryant Haliday, Brattle will attempt to raise the money and find the actors to start production in January, but Holiday is not very optimistic about the Brattle's chances. And meanwhile the theatre on Brattle Street is now up for sale...
...Brijoni islands off the Dalmatian coast, a photographer snapped Yugoslavia's Strong Man Marshal Tito enjoying a holiday, a good cigar and one of his favorite playthings, a new three-dimensional camera...
...resented. One screamed at her: "You're a freak of nature-you'll never last!" She played stock in Baltimore, studied dramatics in New York under Frances Robinson-Duff, landed a bit part in These Days, a Broadway flop. For six months she understudied Hope Williams in Holiday. Sculptor Robert McKnight, who wanted to marry her, took her to the country for an afternoon. She talked so continuously of love, life, art and Katharine Hepburn that he never had a chance to interrupt with his proposal...
Prop Deer. Hepburn's early assaults on Broadway were easily repulsed. She was fired from the casts of Death Takes a Holiday and The Animal Kingdom. Critics then, as now, disagreed about her talent. Kate says: "One lot said I was a lovely, graceful young creature. Another lot said I was gawky, hoydenish, gaunt, like something escaped from a tomb." In The Warrior's Husband, she was fired and rehired before the show reached Broadway. The play was a hit and so was Kate. As Antiope, an Amazon queen, Kate came hurtling down a ramp, lugging a prop...