Word: joans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from too many cooks, or mere incompetent cooking, Dance Me a Song makes very thin broth. For awhile it can just manage to be termed uneven; by the end, there is no kinder word than weak. The show boasts a batch of sprightly and likable young people, including Dancer Joan McCracken. But youth at the prow can seldom prosper without ability in the engine room. The show has some pleasantly simple dance numbers, but more that are noisy and elaborate. One or two songs are nice enough to listen to, but there are none worth talking about. The sketches, always...
...Turin, an Italian Court of Assizes confirmed the annulment of the marriage of Film Director Roberto (Open City) Rossellini to Marcella de Marchis, mother of his eight-year-old son. Rossellini was thus free to marry Cinemactress Ingrid (Joan of Arc) Bergman, who was pressing hard for a divorce from her Hollywood surgeon-husband, Dr. Peter Lindstrom...
They seem even more impressive as the work of a new director, Alexander Mackendrick, on his first feature assignment. Director Mackendrick has some expert allies: the players, besides Radford, include Wylie Watson, Gordon Jackson and a fetching blonde named Joan Greenwood. Best of all, he has an unerring screenplay, based on Compton Mackenzie's novel, Whisky Galore, and written by Mackenzie and Angus Macphail. The script savors the cream of the jest, wastes not a drop and ends gracefully with a wry concession to the moral superiority of teetotalers...
...Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps, was hearing voices. One newsman put the question straight to him: Did he hear voices or didn't he? Instead of laughing, Cripps rubbed his chin thoughtfully for a long moment, then answered seriously, with a sentence that would have stunned Joan of Arc's judges: "I don't think so-at least...
Patricia White '46, ex-assistant chairman of the 70th Anniversary drive, offered her services to the committee running the March concert. Joan McPartlin '49 will also work with the alumnae and aid with public relations for the new "Drumbeats." Other committee members include chairman Sylvia Rice '50, Diedre O'Brien '50, Sheila Brown '51, Rachel Mellinger '52, and Dele Gilmore...