Word: marcelled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Know My Love (adapted from the French of Marcel Achard by S.N. Behrman; produced by the Theatre Guild & John C. Wilson) may run for years with the Lunts in it; without them, it would hardly last a week. Not since the perfection of the chocolate-covered peppermint has anything so thin also been so gooey. But with that delightful absorption in themselves that renders them oblivious to their surroundings, the Lunts are as arch, as expert and as enjoyable here as elsewhere...
...most Frenchmen, however, the most important single item in Suzanne's waybill was tough, pompadoured Marcel Cerdan, the idolized middleweight boxing champ who last June dropped his title to Jake LaMotta in Detroit. "Don't worry, darling," Marcel had told his wife in Casablanca over the phone from Orly Airport last week, "I'll get there and I'll bring back that title." As Marcel and his manager climbed aboard the plane, there was little doubt in French hearts that both prophecies would be borne...
...Died. Marcel Cerdan, 33, Algerian-born French boxer, former (1948-49) middleweight champion of the world; in a plane crash; in Sao Miguel, Azores (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...their last sous to get aboard Rita Hayworth's filly Double Rose. Amour Drake and Val Drake, wearing the funereal black silks of Paris' most dramatic relict, the dashing young widow of Theatrical Magnate Leon Volterra, were the heavy favorites, but form players plumped for Textile Millionaire Marcel Boussac's triple entry of Djeddah, Coronation and Norval (Boussac horses had won the Prix five times...
There will be few surprises for the theater-wise who are lucky enough to have tickets for the new play at the Plymouth. It is called "I Know My Love" and is an adaption from the French of Marcel Achard by S. N. Behrman. Mr. Behrman has been responsible for some of the more delightful and urbane comedies that have flitted across our stage in the past years and that he has not lost his touch was evident Monday night. That the stars of "I Know My Love"--Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne--have not lost their touch for making...