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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Except for a wretched vocal group called "The Upstarts," the cast is uniformly excellent. Especially worth mention is a young dancer named Dorothy Jarnae, who has an amazingly mobile body and face. Her performance of her own choreography, is a high point in the show. Jack Albertson is another talented fellow who can do anything from a good buck-and-wing to double talk; Patricia Bright is a very attractive and delightful singing comedienne. Roger Price, a latter-day Herb Shriner, is an amusing monologuist, and a clever cartoonist as well...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 4/13/1950 | See Source »

...colored inks to mark the day-red, blue, green, and a raspberry known locally as impulsive red. Instead of news stories they carried long columns of verse. At 5 a.m., a navy radio station began to broadcast the proceedings. It was a most discreet broadcast, failing to mention that when the King was transferring by PT boat from the liner Selandia to the Sri Ayuthia, he did a good-humored dance to the buffeting of the waves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIAM: Garden of Smiles | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...cremation of his brother, Phumiphon will marry Sirikit on a day set by astrologers. No one in Bangkok makes a move without consulting an astrologer. In a recent speech opening the Bangkok branch of the Bank of America, U.S. Ambassador Edwin L. Stanton found it diplomatic to mention that the astrologers had found the date propitious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIAM: Garden of Smiles | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...Mass I saw a pink donkey with green ears, standing on its head. I hasten to add that it was on one of those lively scarves worn by young ladies. In other moments of distraction I have observed . . . Mahjong players, Hawaiian dancing girls, Sheiks and camels, not to mention film stars and dogs. I would suggest that the Spanish mantilla might be more seemly and beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: No More Donkeys | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

Honorable Mention: centers--Ryan, Dudley; Brynteson, Dunster; Belcher, Leverett; forwards--May, Lowell; Reynolds, Leverett; Gotshalk, Eliot; guards--Redman, Hoffman, Dudley; Walker, Raphael, Dunster; Barclay, Kirkland...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: 3 Deacons Make Crime's All-House Basketball Team | 3/29/1950 | See Source »

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