Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basis for seeing ghosts; but where Shakespeare uses both very early and formatively, Rice brings in both very late, making them misshape rather than mold John Kerr's nicely played but small-scale snarling boy. The play is most striking where, toward the end, it shifts the moral limelight from son to mother; and Diana Wynyard plays these later scenes brilliantly...
Even more of a rarity than its tone is the fact that the big, black voice belongs to a white, 30-year-old Los Angeles housewife (three children) named Barbara Dane. Back at The Limelight in her home town Los Angeles last week, after her first crack at the East Coast (The Den in Manhattan), she stood on the brink of the big time, one of the few white blues singers who ever belonged there. Ahead of her were further club dates in Chicago, San Francisco and a return to New York, as well as an LP for Dot. Said...
Tall (6 ft. 1 in.) Archbishop Meyer 55, was in Baltimore for a consecration* when the Vatican made its announcement, probably was glad to be out of town for the Milwaukee fuss and feathers that attended the news. No lover of the limelight, he is a scholarly, quiet man who smokes an occasional pipe, takes an occasional fishing trip (he calls fishing the "apostolic recreation") and puts in an occasional appearance at County Stadium to watch the Milwaukee Braves...
...well know, is an extremely talented and valuable member of our company, but it was Group 20's Managing-Director, Miss Alison Ridley, who was entirely responsible for obtaining the rights to the play, after six months of work on this point. As Managing-Directors so rarely receive the limelight which is the happier lot of their actors, I have taken it upon myself to see that recognition for this theatrical coup be assigned where it rightly belongs. Wendell Weston, Group 20 Players of Mass...
...Michigan's first lady, it seems, nothing is too good-or too big. In the limelight at a 43rd birthday party for Governor Gerhard Mennen ("Soapy") Williams' wife Nancy was a great big cake thoughtfully donated by a Lansing restaurateur, who happens to have the cafeteria concession in the new State Office Building. Modeled after the State Capitol, the 48-layer, 4½-ft-tall goody measured 22 ft. in perimeter, weighed 650 Ibs., required 500 eggs, 90 Ibs. of butter, 120 Ibs. of sugar, was hauled to Detroit by truck in six sections. Sharing the buttercream mess...