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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lisa Kirk, who stops the Broadway hit, Kiss Me, Kate, every time she sings Always True to You in My Fashion, was deeply impressed by the famed calm of Composer Cole Porter: "A composer's work must be like a baby to him. Giving it to a singer must be like leaving it with a sitter. You'd think Mr. Porter would be on edge about it, but," she marveled, "he won't [even] quarrel with you about the baby's diet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Just Deserts | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...second sequence, which has a strong satiric bite, hits a more realistic standard. It details a crisis in the home of an idealistic schoolteacher (Kirk Douglas) who rebels at the way his wife (Ann Sothern) helps earn the family living, i.e., by writing soap operas. In spite of the glass house it lives in, Hollywood here throws some viciously well-aimed stones at radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 17, 1949 | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

Miss Darnell, who can be a temptress without even trying, has never shown so strikingly that she can be an actress as well. But, in a picture crowded with skilled performances-by Kirk Douglas, Miss Sothern, and Thelma Ritter as an aggressively democratic maid-of-all-work-Paul Douglas' spaniel-faced portrait of a tough guy stands by itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 17, 1949 | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

Hanya Holm's dances are smart, brisk, Broadwayish-no Art whatever and a vast amount of skill; and Dancer Harold Lang and Singer Lisa Kirk take care of the subplot in style. In the leading roles, Hollywood's Patricia Morison proves to be right at home on Broadway, and Alfred Drake stands forth as the best all-round musicomedy hero in show business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Jan. 10, 1949 | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...GAME SCHEDULE, LEAGUE A (Games on Court 2) Fri., Jan. 7 (2 p.m.) Adams-Dudley Mon., Jan. 10 (2 p.m.) Leverett-Eliot (7 p.m.) Kirk.-Dunster (8 p.m.) Winth'p-L'well Wed., Jan. 12 (2 p.m.) Dudl'y-Winth'p Thur., Jan. 13 (2 p.m.) Lever'tt-Ad'ms (7 p.m.) Lowell-Kirk. (8 p.m.) Eliot-Dunster GAME SCHEDULE, LEAGUE B (Games on Court 1) Fri., Jan. 7 (2 p.m.) Adams-Dudley Mon., Jan. 10 (2 p.m.) Leverett-Eliot (7 p.m.) Kirk.-Dunster (8 p.m.) W'th'p-Lowell Wed., Jan. 12 (2 p.m.) Dudley-W'th'p Thur...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Basketball Comes Back for Ten Days Friday | 1/5/1949 | See Source »

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