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Bouncy Betty Mutton, playing hostess at a birthday party for Victor ("Beautiful Hunk of Man") Mature, lent her celebrated lung power to help him blow out the candles. Later on, she let it be known that in a forthcoming movie she would take a fling at the role of Ophelia, in a strictly jive version of Hamlet. Sample lyrics, written for her by Frank (Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition) Loesser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 14, 1949 | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

Traveler Cummings' afternoon at the home of the influential woman Communist known as Madame Potiphar-with a lean GPU agent appearing unexpectedly, and the hostess disappearing with "a hero of work" while her husband lectures to Cummings about the Cause-is a queer mixture of horror and humor in upper-crust Communist social life. The other episodes and scenes seem to have grown more impressive-the theater ("everywhere a mysterious sense of behaving, of housebrokenness,of watch-your-stepism"), the jail and the nightclubs, the Writers' Club and the literary receptions, the chronic indigestion, the perpetual enthusiasm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Russia Revisited | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

Radcliffe will play hostess to the Massachusetts League of Women Voters during a two day school of international relations in Agassiz House on January...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women Voters to Discuss Foreign Affairs at Annex | 1/14/1949 | See Source »

...bedroom farce that should have been left in the attic. Under his psychoanalyst's orders, a mousy, middle-aged English taxidermist (Ernest Truex) stalks sex on a Connecticut weekend. All the women in the house beat a path to his door-the housekeeper (Sylvia Field), the hostess (Grace McTarnahan) and a worldly lady playwright with heart of brass (Vicki Cummings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 3, 1949 | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

Though she was obviously tired (she dislikes air travel, complained that her eardrums "were about to burst"), she talked with animation. At one point she remarked: "Today is my wedding day." Her hostess said, "Is that so? We'll have to have a celebration." Said Madame Chiang: "Just being here is my celebration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: House Guest | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

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