Word: leigh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Good Old Summertime." She does have a minute to herself in the third scene when she dances with little Robert Jennings, but the enthusiasm of the audience goes unrewarded and the play plods forward without an encore. By cutting some of the dull subplot of ingenue Carol Leigh and dancer Ray Malone, the producers could add a raucous number to Miss Booth's vaudeville scene. She belted out such songs in "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" and another would brighten the second...
...Connor's, are clever enough to weave their way through any reasonably foolish script. But in this picture, Dancer O'Connor is tangled in at least a half-mile of celluloid that should have been left on the cutting-room floor. The love interest: Janet Leigh, in a sweater. The whole thing ends with a sort of death rattle: a concert of "symphonic Dixieland" that seems better calculated to finish jazz than to revive...
...Toronto, radio station CHUM daringly dropped all its western serials, quiz programs and disk jockeys, to concentrate on "melodic" music and news. Explained Program Director Mrs. Leigh Lee: "We think there is a big audience that is sick to death of too much disk-jockey chatter. No one cares a damn that Eddie Fisher was wearing pajamas when he cut this disk, or that Hugo Winterhalter broke three fingers while conducting a number. By playing purely music we may bring back that lost audience...
...exact identity of all the judges is still a secret. Those known to have the ill-rewarding but pleasant job are Dr. Edwin Hunt, University anthropologist, Carroll F. Miles, Dunster House Senior Tutor, and Leigh Headley, Master of Leverett House. Rumors on who the other judges may be range from a noted researcher on female behavior to one of the trainers on a local football staff...
Actor Sir Laurence Olivier and his Actress-Wife Vivien Leigh, after cruising the Mediterranean with Cinemagnate Sir Alexander Korda on his 150-ton yacht Elsewhere, were back in London for another busy theater season. They began rehearsals for their new play, The Sleeping Princess (Actress Leigh's first stage role since recovering from last spring's nervous breakdown), and were photographed helping famed British Actress Helen Haye* (still going strong playing the Dowager Empress of Russia in Anastasia) blow out the candles at her 79th birthday party...