Word: joans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Powell works so hard at the business that his success as a moneymaker has had an unhappy and inverse ratio to his success as a husband. His second wife, Joan Blondell, complained in divorcing him that he always had two big-deal telephones going at once. June Allyson, his third, filed for divorce earlier this year (after 16 years of marriage) with the complaint that she had become an office widow. When the Powells went cruising to Santa Catalina Island on their 56-ft. motor sailer, Dick would answer the week's mail by Dictaphone...
...Born. To Joan Tyler, 28, once divorced sometime movie starlet whose paternity suit against Toastmaster-Comic George Jessel, 63, is still pending (his reaction to the summons: "At my time of life, it's a compliment"): her second child, a daughter; in Hollywood...
...landed one of the most enviable roles any girl could ever want. She had been picked as Sir Laurence Olivier's leading lady for his new film. Term of Trial, joining a list that includes such distinguished predecessors as Vivien Leigh, Claire Bloom, Marilyn Monroe and Joan Plowright. Appropriately enough, she will play the role of a precocious schoolgirl. In the film, she tries to seduce her schoolmaster (Olivier), is spurned, and retaliates by charging him with assault...
There's a new Messiah out this year (no surprise), but don't buy it. Joan Sutherland is its major attraction, and Sir Adrian Boult its conductor. And unfortunately, Sir Adrian is one of those who thinks that Miss Sutherland can only sing well when she is singing Puccini (a palpable falsehood). Consequently, Sir Adrian has ripped Handel's oratoria from its century, making it as operatic and as nineteenth-century as he can. The result is a sprawling, unkempt orchestra, bawling, dyspeptic singers, and crawling, inept tempos. (London A 4357--you'll recognize the album by the ugly crucifix...
Finally, I will mention a few albums by local folksingers. Joan Baez has been well-promoted in Cambridge. She has, in addition to her first release on the Veritas label, two records on Vanguard. Baez has a staggeringly beautiful voice. Her rendition of "Old Blue" on her latest Vanguard release is also excellent for checking up on the distortion of your phono-cartridge. Theodore Alevizos, a former WHRB Balladeer, has a wonderful recording of Greek folksongs on Prestige International, whereon he is accompanied by Rolf Cahn and Susan Alevizos. Rolf Cahn and Eric Von Schmidt have an album on Folkways...