Word: kate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That Lady (by Kate O'Brien; produced by Katharine Cornell) is ornate claptrap laid in 16th Century Spain and starring Katharine Cornell. The lady in question is Ana de Mendoza y de Gomez, a widowed princess who wore a patch over one eye, and her heart, to her undoing, on her sleeve. Cruel, capricious Philip II was Ana's devoted friend until she became his Secretary of State's enraptured mistress; thereafter the King, out of pique and jealousy, hounded the lovers implacably. The Secretary (Torin Thatcher) escaped at last to Aragon; Ana was kept a prisoner...
...Broadway last week, theatergoers were still flocking to Kiss Me, Kate, the musicomedy hit based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. In the hinterland, to woo theatergoers to her touring production of The Taming of the Shrew, Margaret Webster was billing the old comedy with a new subtitle: "The Original Kiss Me, Kate...
...Suzanne's plane, whose plans and hopes for the future were inevitably and inextricably intertwined with those of the earthbound: dapper, 67-year-old Bernard Boutet de Monvel, the famed portraitist son of an even more famed illustrator father (Filles et Garcons, Jeanne d'Arc); lovely Kate Kamen and her shrewd, spectacled husband Kay, the man responsible for bringing Mickey Mouse watches, stuffed Donald Ducks and other Disney-fathered creatures into millions of U.S. nurseries. There was dynamic young (30) Ginette Neveu who in 1947, according to one critic, stepped "practically unknown" upon the stage at Carnegie Hall...
...natural, jumping dialogue. And a good director could even capture the lush moments when Green suddenly forgets the human comedy and begins to dream poetic fairy tales-as in his pen-picture of peacock-keeper Paddy O'Conor, surprised napping in the saddle room by Edie and Kate...
Roughshod. In Chicago, Fred Haver-kate formally charged George Widdes with assault with a deadly weapon: "One pair of oxford shoes, size eight, attached to the defendant's right and left feet...