Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miss Helen Dozier Conant, 18, was crowned Queen of Love and Beauty at St. Louis' annual Veiled Prophet Ball. Spectators watched her walk to the throne talking earnestly to her escort, later discovered that she had been reciting the Declaration of Independence to steady her nerves...
Private Lives (by Noel Coward; produced by John C. Wilson) was, 17 years ago, a brittle comedy in which Gertrude Lawrence and Noel Coward deftly misbehaved. Last week it became a vehicle-a sort of battering ram-for Tallulah Bankhead. Miss Bankhead, with Donald Cook (Claudia, Skylark), puts on quite a show, though few would call it Private Lives...
...term charge. The fact that patients at Stillman must pay more than the $15, for medicine, special services, and after-hour calls, has always been a chief source of complaint. The committee would make up this loss of revenue by economics in the department. But they miss the stronger argument that the department showed a balance of more than $100,000 in 1946-47, the year they studied. This figure suggests that some of these irritating fees could be abolished...
Saturday evening has been left open for surplus discussion in the commissions, Miss Gilbert added...
...whole idea of the picture seems to be that it will wow the fans to see Miss Garson in tights, floundering in the mud, playing at comedy. But it is no news that Greer Garson has good legs (vide Random Harvest), or that she is a skillful comedienne (vide Valley of Decision); nor is it particularly funny to see dignity, whether real or superimposed, mucked...