Word: liza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What follows his escape is a mad chase on locomotives through the slumbering countryside, a scene with all the peculiar virtues of the Keystone Cops, the drawings of Punch's artist Emett, and Liza crossing...
Tatyana Bers Kuzminskaya, who was born in 1846 and died in 1925, was no more than a child when she and her elder sisters, Liza and Sonya, were caught in Tolstoy's love-web. Sister Liza fell madly in love with young Tolstoy-only to find that he was in love with sister Sonya, who became his wife. Tatyana herself got the next best break: her brother-in-law admired her so much that he made her the model for his heroine, Natasha Rostova, in War and Peace...
...both more and less than a great actress. She is less in that she has yet to play the sort of sustained dramatic part that characterizes the work of a Katherine Cornell or a Judith Anderson. She is less, because whenever she undertakes non-musical roles such as Liza in "Pygmalion," her own virtuosity substitutes for the content of the play at various points throughout her performance...
Born. To Judy Garland (born Frances Gumm), 23, doelike screen ingenue, and Vincente Minnelli, 38, her deft director in The Clock; their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Liza, Weight...
Born. To Eddie Condon, 39, guitarist, leader of Manhattan's "pure" jazzmen (who scorn "semi-pro" canned jive and give concerts at Carnegie Hall) ; and Phyllis Reay Condon, 37, magazine writer: their second child, second daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Liza (from the title of his first recording). Weight...