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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...customary for Hollywood to take itself seriously in every instance, the Awards being no exception. However, the ad-man for a recent motion-picture, "Chicken Every Sunday," recently bilied Celeste Holm as "that Academy Award winnin' gal!" Miss Holm was given her Award for appearing intelligibly in anti-anti-Semitic film...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: From the Pit | 4/27/1949 | See Source »

Inside, in a story unerringly aimed at the subway set, the News disclosed that the battle began when Miss Sothern was accused by Miss Collier, a "seminude novelty dancer," of wearing "falsies." For News readers, Georgia sniffed: if anyone needed falsies, it was Joann. "Some got 'em and some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: What's News? | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...farmers' almanac," he says, "and it would say something like: 'About this time, look for a frost.' It didn't pin down the area, or the day, and people took it in three or four states. How in the world could it miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Every 6.6456 Days | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

Just when Lund thinks that his wife has begun to love him, the lily-like Lucrezia tries to do him in with a dollop of poisoned wine. Lund seems to enjoy all this nonsense, but he is the only member of the cast who does. Miss Goddard, trailing around in sumptuous gowns, waits in vain for an opportunity to climb alluringly in & out of a Renaissance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 25, 1949 | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

When Morgan wants to make fun of Judge Anthony or Gabriel Heatter or Luella Parsons, the Messrs, Anthony and Heatter and Miss Parsons hurt for a long time thereaftr. Once you hear Morgan spoof scientific experts you are pretty shame-faced the next time you take a Reader's Digest cure for acne seriously...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, | Title: From the Pit | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

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