Word: lees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...list of price complaints has been reprinted as received. The Oyster Shell (restaurant) all meat dishes up $.05 to $.10 Woolworth 5-and 10 shoe trees from $.39 to $.49 Fiske's ice cream, with dinner, $.10 to $.15 Harvard Variety Store $.05 rise on ice cream cones Young Lee's Restaurant all dinners up about 30 percent...
Irene Dunne is properly starchy as Anna, while Lee J. Cobb and Gale Sondergaard maintain a tone of reality as believable members of the royal household. But Rex the rex injects enough jaunty wit in 100 minutes to make up for years of freekle-faced 2nd lieutenants and monosyllabic bathing beauties. From a first knowing look down to an inspired performance vending napkins to emissaries of the western nations at the Bangkok version of a formal dinner, the picture is his. Thus it is that "Anna and The King of Siam" take their place as one of those rare pairs...
...LEONARD LEE Los Angeles...
...scandal which would have sucked down a dozen ordinary politicians. In 1910, as a drink-cadging state legislator, he heard the State Senate pronounce him "unfit to sit with upright men." He was jailed in 1923 for refusing to testify in a seduction suit against his political sidekick, Governor Lee M. Russell. He divorced his wife; she accused him of cruelty and a succession of infidelities, publicly begged Mississippi's women to vote against...
...Stafford's style is also typical of popular singing, 1946 model. The days of Helen Kane's boop-boop-a-doop, Helen Morgan's teary-voiced moaning or Bonnie Baker's baby talk are past. The style,now-practiced also by Margaret Whiting and Peggy Lee -is to sing straight, and let the band do the fancy work. Her detractors say Jo Stafford sings like a pitch pipe...