Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mammy teaches her yung'uns to play the best lacrosse in the world. When Bruce Munro takes a 20-man squad for a six day tour of the South next week it will be only slightly less ambitious than a two-week barnstorming tour of the Big Ten by Lloyd Jordan and fifteen of his football players...
...tinted palazzi, decorated with balconies and frills of cake-icing beauty and delicacy. Last week Venetians and Venice-lovers were engaged in a heated esthetic and sentimental wrangle with the advocates of progress and modern architecture. The issue: a proposal to construct a house designed by U.S. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright on a curve of the Grand Canal...
Even before Wright's designs-which have yet to be approved by the Venice city council-had been seen by the public, the battle began. The idea of a Frank Lloyd Wright house on the Grand Canal was enough. The art critic of the Italian weekly L'Europeo announced that "even if Wright were ten thousand times greater than Michelangelo, it would be presumptuous of him to wish to build on the Grand Canal." Letter writers to the London Times denounced the Wright invasion as "a piece of inexcusable vandalism." Mrs. Marie Truxtun Beale, a wealthy U.S. socialite...
...general individuality of the thing itself is braced by the expertness of the production: by the crisp pacing of Director Norman Lloyd, the lively performing of a likable cast, the fresh, amusing Hanya Holm dances, the clean simple, vivid William and Jean Eckart sets. Most of the time The Golden Apple is not only more adventurous and more sophisticated than Broadway; it is also decidedly more amusing...
Died. John Lloyd Balderston, 64, foreign correspondent turned playwright, best known in the U.S. for his 1929 Broadway hit, Berkeley Square, and its movie version (1933), both starring the late Leslie Howard; of a heart attack; in Hollywood...