Word: missing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They're Animals." Standing in the bright floodlights at the entrance, Mickey made a fine target. A burst of shotgun fire came from behind a signboard across the street. Special Agent Cooper, the man who was going to guard Mickey, toppled over with two slugs in his belly. Miss David was hit three times. A Cohen lieutenant dropped with a slug in his kidney, screaming. Only Mickey stood silent, without moan or shout. He had been drilled through the right shoulder...
...Earl of Harewood, to dark-haired, Austrian-born Pianist Marion Stein, 22. Young Harewood, opera critic for the New Statesman and Nation and a potential heir to the throne (eleventh in line), was so far from kingship that nobody worried much about his marrying a com moner. Last week Miss Stein, a gypsy-faced, beauty whose father works for Boosey & Hawkes, Ltd., music publishers, was meeting the family...
Like most period musicals, Miss Liberty is charming to look at, with gay costumes and Oliver Smith's elegant and evocative sets. Like most period musicals also, Miss Liberty has a thin, insipid air of farce about it. But it is too much in one key; by not changing enough, it drifts steadily toward the worse. As a complete novice at musicomedy, Mr. Sherwood might have blundered into something truly fresh and individual, but he seems to have carefully studied how to be as much (and as mechanically) like everybody else as possible...
...vigorous job that comes nearest to giving the show the comedy it badly needs. The young people in the cast-Mary McCarty, Allyn McLerie, Eddie Albert-are all pleasant enough, but their roles are definitely on the stale side. What does most to relieve the sameness and tameness of Miss Liberty are Jerome Robbins' gay, rowdy dances. They are much the best thing in the show...
...York commercial artist, she looks like the perfect model for the perfect cover girl. To Eddie Bracken, a down-at-heels promoter, she looks like the promise of a fat commission if she can be teamed with Reagan in a television act. The problem: to persuade highbrow Miss Mayo to lend herself to such a lowbrow enterprise...