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...great actress," instructed Actor Mason, "has talent plus intelligence plus imagination plus X." The only cinemactress whom Mason currently found in possession of "plus X": Greta Garbo. The other four best: Dorothy McGuire, Ingrid Bergman, Bette Davis, and "a non-pareil," Lena Home (see Music...
Nightclubbing Parisians, who had seen her movies and heard her records, knew something of what to expect. In the midst of France's troubles last week, well-dressed Parisians packed the smart, red-walled Club des Champs Elysées, to see Lena Horne's Continental debut. Word had drifted across the channel of Lena's smashing success in London-and by midnight the atmosphere was electric...
...York's upper West Side, but she graduated to better things when her mother (Alma Gluck) became famous as a singer. Author Davenport now lives in the high-rent East 70s and is the author of such best-sellers as The Valley of Decision and Of Lena Geyer. East Side, West Side is a glimpse at these two worlds. It straddles Manhattan in the manner of a crosstown bus, picking up a sampling of the city's polyglot population and giving them a good shaking-up as it goes along. At journey's end, only the well...
Touching on a similar subject, brown-skinned Nightclub Singer Lena Home told an interviewer from the Negro picture magazine Ebony:"The people who make me burn are the Negroes . . . who make .heir money off of Jim Crow and who won't fight it. Even worse are the Negroes . . . who hate all whites indiscriminately. . . . Negroes ought to have better sense than slamming a whole group at once...
Walter White and Lena Home could mark a note of progress in race relations last week. Harvard University's football team started a Negro tackle, quiet, 6 ft. 4 in. Chester Pierce, in its game with the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. It was one of the very few times a Negro had played against a Southern university on a field south of the Mason-Dixon line. Many in the crowd of 24,000 Southerners waved flags of the Confederacy; many of them also applauded Harvard's Pierce for the hard game he played while his team took...