Word: irma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...several of these comments suggest, many of these TiME-readers' recipes have not appeared in print before. Others have been contributed by TiME-reading women known for cookbooks of their own: Mrs. Irma Rombauer, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Frances Parkinson Keyes. As you may have guessed, The TIME Reader's Book of Recipes is not a standard cookbook but a collection of favorite recipes that are different from those you would find in such a book. It is entirely the work of TIME'S women readers, not TIME'S editors, and we have had a fine time...
...Friend Irma (Paramount), as millions of radio fans know, is a dizzy, alluringly dumb blonde. Cy Howard, her CBS creator and co-author of the screenplay, has seen to it that in her first screen appearance, Irma (Marie Wilson) is just as her fans would have her. She keeps the butter in the oven, the egg beater under a sofa cushion; she short-circuits the plans of her boy friend (John Lund) and her roommate (Diana Lynn), and in general does everything in the least rational way possible. None of this is very funny and much of it is downright...
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Irma Gonzalez, soprano; Elena Nikolaidi, contralto; Raoul Jobin, tenor; Mack Harrell, baritone; Westminster Choir and New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Bruno Walter conducting; Columbia, 16 sides). The first three movements are performed with more passion than pace; both the singing and the recording in the choral movement come off with some screeching and muffled sounds...
...town. Last week, almost three years later, Martin & Lewis were the talk of show business. At Manhattan's copious Copacabana, the team had just smashed an eight-year house record for receipts-and in the depth of a general nightclub depression. The first Martin & Lewis movie, My Friend Irma, in which they have supporting roles, would be shown this fall in first-run houses. NBC, which had just handed them a Sunday night radio hot spot (6:307 p.m., E.D.T.), was dishing out over $10,000 a week to break them into radio harness. (Variety seconded...
Last week Else and Irma were busy making Adelheide their home. They brought in evergreen branches to decorate their room. With a saw borrowed from the carpentry shop, they made little frames for the pictures of their relatives. Else could hardly get over their good fortune...