Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...list of attractions is "Bad Sister," an English offering that ranks far below the usual foreign product. Margaret Lockwood and Joan Greenwood, two very nice-looking dames, take the audience to the Riveria and Finland on a pair of tragic love affairs. The high point comes in Finland where Miss Lockwood is serenaded by a high-frequencied soprano with a face like a bilious brook trout...
...more to gain than to lose by running as the rebels' candidate for President. He was picked because he was the most willing and eager. Fielding Wright, 53-year-old lawyer, who is as smooth and cold as a hardboiled egg -and whose home town of Rolling Fork, Miss., has more Negroes than whites-was glad to run as the vice presidential candidate...
...Miss Gordon opens her pretty little box in the year 1899 and reveals the rest of her collection of dolls. They area group of elegantly clad New Yorkers, sitting around sipping wine at the fashionable residence of the celebrated acting couple, Gerald and Gay Marriott, on West 27th Street. As they are very witty and biting in their speech, it is apparent that they are contemporaries of Oscar Wilde. The talk is about their hosts who have just opened in a new play. One particularly saucy young man tells how Gay (Miss Gordon) was "discovered" by Gerald, already an established...
...first ten or fifteen minutes this chitchat goes on: "Isn't Gay wonderful?" "Wonderful!! She's the most enchanting, bewitching creature . . . I've already proposed six times. . . etc." By this time, a suspicion has arisen that this isn't going to be a play at all, but that Miss Gordon has attempted to write a tour do force for herself. This is confirmed when the leading man dies at the end of the first...
Writing a tour de force for the theater is in many ways a more difficult job than merely writing a play, a task Miss Gordon has twice before proved she could do. It requires both daring and discretion; the knowledge of one's boundaries is essential for its success. But most of all, the playwright needs an icon with more general appeal than Miss Gordon. She is a fine actress, very feminine and tender. She has a funny little was of running up the musical scale when she speaks, letting her voice crack, gently, half...