Word: looses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A MOUSE Is BORN (214 pp.)-Anita Loos-Doubleday ($2.50).
Lorelei Lee is one tart that never seems to go stale. Her crust is as crisp in a Broadway musical today as it was in 1925, when Anita Loos composed her memoirs of a floozy, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Now Author Loos has tried the old recipe again.
The stay-arounds are South Pacific, with Mary Martin and Ray Middleton at the Majestic on 44th; Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate, with Anno Jeffreys at the Shubert on 44th; Carol Channing in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the Anita Loos satire at the Ziogfeld at 54th and Sixth Avenue; and...
In Manhattan, Anita (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes') Loos explained why she had changed the title of her new novel on Hollywood life from Sex Doesn't Last to A Mouse Is Born. The first choice, she said, "is a lousy title. What I mean is the principle of the...
Sometimes things get so simple that they stop being history. Brooding over the tomb of Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy, in Gloucester's handsome cathedral, McKenney drops into a palsy-walsy reverie: "Poor old Robert. I have always wondered why they called him Curthose. Maybe his stockings kept slipping...