Word: lunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outwardly there was little splash or glitter-few limousines or evening clothes, and a wartime, 6:30 curtain. But tickets were priced above rubies, the lobbies were a mass of craning necks and exploding flash bulbs. Last week Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne gave London one of its biggest first nights since the war began...
Looking like Al Jolson Digged out to understudy Alfred Lunt in The Guardsman, Commander John S. Young, onetime NBC commentator and later assistant naval attache at Moscow, modeled the regulation dress for officers assigned to the Soviet Union. To the Navy bridge coat has been added a collar of caracul. The headpiece, also of caracul, is patterned after the Cossack...
...propaganda between London and the Mediterranean. He managed to get around to a fair share of cocktail parties, where he looked miserable, helped serve drinks. Playwright Sherwood's There Shall Be No Night, one of wartime London's smash hits, had to suspend performances when Actor Alfred Lunt caught bronchitis fire-watching, and passed his cold along to Actress Lynn Fontanne...
Imports. Smash hit at the moment-and an exception to London's craving for escape-is Robert E. Sherwood's There Shall Be No Night, with the Lunts in their Broadway roles and the play's setting changed from Finland to Greece. Many Londoners, finding its tragic story too close to their own experiences, leave halfway through the play. The production had a troubled road tryout. Both Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne opened in Oxford with the flu ("It was wonderful," said Fontanne, "but like swimming under water"), eventually gave flu to the entire company...
...Lunts had a very good thing in Stephen Vincent Benet's story of the Nativity for Cavalcade and they did better by it. Benet drew a parallel between the birthtime of Christ and World War II. Herod was Gauleiter of Egypt, and the Romans his masters. Middle-aged Alfred Lunt kept the inn of the Nativity and spoke for all adaptable World War II innkeepers...