Word: iii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bulgaria's bald, 49-year-old King Boris III journeyed last week to Adolf Hitler's general headquarters. Hitler reportedly demanded: 1) six Bulgarian divisions for the defense of the Black and Aegean Sea coasts; 2) five additional Bulgarian divisions to replace an equal number of Germans in Serbia, thus easing Hitler's critical war manpower situation; 3) curfews, civilian evacuations and other extraordinary measures in Bulgaria's coastal areas. The Germans apparently expected an invasion through Bulgaria into middle Europe. Boris also understood the possibility. Bulgarians were asked "to endure with patience and calmness...
Sarongstress Dorothy Lamour, tireless troop entertainer, whose picture is a pin-up favorite of far-flung Army barracks, decided to marry a soldier whom she met on tour. He is Army Air Forces Captain William Ross Howard III, 35, peacetime Virginia lumberman, onetime Maryland state legislator. Captain Howard and the onetime elevator girl applied for a license in Los Angeles. She had a little difficulty filling out the application, consulted her agent when she came to the space marked: Occupation. Said the agent: "You're a movie actress, remember?" The marriage will be the second for each: her first...
...characterizations are distinguished, with that of Edmund Gwenn as Dr. Chebutykin outstanding. Gwenn captures all the inherent pathos in the character of the pitiful Army Doctor who takes to drink to escape from his failure in life; his Act III soliloquy, which in less capable hands could have become bathetic, is exactly right. Ruth Gordon is an extremely lifelike Natasha, so lifelike in fact that one comes from the theatre hating her thespian guts. And Judith Anderson turns in a finely turned performance as Olga, bearing her neurosis ably. Miss Cornell, The Lady With the Manner, is as wonderful...
...apiece to his secretary, John Axten, and Director Belle da Costa Greene of the Pierpont Morgan Library in Manhattan; $25,000 to butler Henry Physick; $20,000 apiece to valet Bernard Stewart, chauffeur Charles Robertson; his father's watch-chain charm (a seal), to grandson John Pierpont Morgan III...
...Richard III (by William Shakespeare; produced by Theater Productions) is Broadway's only revival of Shakespeare this season. It is not a very rewarding one. Richard III is second-rate Shakespeare, lacking depth, dimension, verbal magic. But in its evil, hunchbacked hero, mounting through blood and stealth to the throne he covets, it has a thumping good stage character. Arrogant, brilliant, constantly dissembling before others but never deceiving himself, murdering without a qualm his followers, his friends, his sovereign, his brother, his little nephews, Richard can be a fascinating villain. Two centuries of notable actors, from Garrick to John...