Word: margarets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the fact that additional people and places are now visible, "The Voice of the Turtle" is still essentially a three-character show. Eleanor Parker and Ronald Reagan, while not able to reach the level established in New York by Margaret Sullivan and Elliot Nugent, are quite capable. Eve Arden, playing the glossy, irresponsible Olive, is up to any standard...
...cast had included Margaret O'Brien and the Andrews Sisters, and the photographing had been done in technicolor, the picture could have been billed as an extravaganza. As it is it isn't even colossal, but there are times when it activates a grudging smile, and once or twice even a warm chuckle. Levant's cynicism is two-dimensional: in his role and for his role. This, by all accounts, is a good thing, taking the mind off the pins and needles of a sleeping leg. Dan Dailey carries the burden of the show, and proves his worth...
...Roman Catholic Church has always deplored the family with too few children or none. Birth-controllers used to worry only about families with too many children. But that was three decades or so ago, when Margaret Sanger began her crusading. Last week the Planned Parenthood Federation (it used to be called the Birth Control League) actually made a deep bow to a Roman Catholic...
...Margaret Truman was coming right along. In Washington, she danced with Hollywood's beautiful Robert Taylor at the Navy Relief Society Ball. In Philadelphia, the Robin Hood Dell concert people wanted her for a July concert (at a reported $2,500), and it looked as if she might drop over from the Dell and pitch a few notes to the Democratic National Convention...
...would soon be hearing about. Her record of I'm the Lonesomest Gal in Town has already sold more than 100,000 copies in three months. And Capitol Records, which seems to know when it has something (it also has such top girl singers as Jo Stafford, Margaret Whiting and Peggy Lee), had recorded 24 songs by Kay before the Petrillo...