Word: margarets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were for France's best male dancer, Jean Babilée-and a new star The Creation had created overnight: 17-year-old, almond-eyed Leslie Caron, a half American, half French girl who had never even seen a ballet until after the war. (Leslie's mother, Margaret Petit, once danced in New York...
ELIZABETH, CAPTIVE PRINCESS (246 pp.) -Margaret Irwin-HarcourtBrace...
...Guild's January offering, nevertheless, is Margaret Irwin's latest jazzed-up documentary on England's first Elizabeth. Taking the 19-year-old princess from the death of her young half-brother Edward VI to the marriage of her half-sister Mary, the book, is the second in a series on the redheaded Tudor (the first, Young Bess, was a 1945 bestseller), which promises to continue as long as Miss Irwin and her readers can stand it. Meaning to be more or less true to history, it manages only to be undistinguished either as scholarship or fiction...
...directors of the BRA and this particular writer seem to have different ideas on what type of plays a repertory group should do. (Or it may be, what type of plays will bring in the customers.) "George and Margaret" is not suitable repertory material, but it is the "pleasant and amusing" comedy the directors said it would be. It is even uproariously funny is two or three instances, not a bad average, certainly. The acting couldn't be better and goes a long way towards covering up the pedestrian plot and characters...
...Margaret MacTavish '51, Sally Cahill '51, president of the Radcliffe Christion Fellowship, Albert M. Johnston 3G, Robert T. Lund '46, Christopher Moore '50, and Richard E. Pederson 1G served on the planning committee for the conference...