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Word: lunts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opening of The Taming of the Shrew in Los Angeles, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne gave swishy latecomers the works. As each laggard strolled or strutted down the aisle, Lunt & Fontanne stopped dead in their lines, she to bow graciously, he to cry "Welcome!" Once he said: "For the benefit of those people who just came in, I'll play the scene again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 25, 1939 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Variety, show-business trade paper, recently hailed a plan whereby some Pan-American problems might be more easily solved: a tour of South America by Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. This proposal agreed with more earthy U. S. citizens' view that what the U. S. needs in Latin America is not bombers as good-will ambassadors, but more characters like Mickey Mouse (El Ratón Miguel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Bombers of Good Will | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Idiot's Delight (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is Producer Hunt Stromberg's version of the play in which Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne delighted New York City theatre audiences three years ago. On the stage, Idiot's Delight presented the fragmentary romance between an itinerant U. S. hoofer and the fake-Russian mistress of a munitions maker, in an Italian border hotel on the eve of a European war. All this added up to an amusing and superficially penetrating indictment of totalitarian politics. Whenever Hollywood touches material of this sort, it stirs up a tremendous agitation about whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: j. The New Pictures | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Baker made arrangements with the Theatre Guild and Alfred Lunt, chucked his lucrative radio work, took Idiot's Delight on tour. Hailed as a natural for the hoofer role, he got rave notices. But the show did poor business, wound up its brief tour last week $10,000 in the red.* "Ten thousand dollars." said Baker, who is returning to radio to recoup before taking another crack at the stage, "is more than it was worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Idealist | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...closing, Baker angrily blamed Alfred Lunt, charging Lunt would not let him take the show to "the best theatre centres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Idealist | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

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