Word: mrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month the shooting of the outdoor sequences clicked along without a hitch. When the moviemakers went back to London to finish some indoor shots, the squires of Much Wenlock finally holed up to have a look at Mrs. Webb's novel. What they read led them to draft a hasty letter to the potent British Field Sports Society...
Seven U.S. Senators on a European fact-finding tour reached Luxembourg to find U.S. Minister Perle Mesta as good a hostess as ever. Mrs. Mesta greeted Oklahoma's Senator Elmer Thomas with a kiss, then whisked him and his colleagues through a giddy two-day whirl culminating in a 55 guest dinner party. To round out the welcome, an overexuberant Luxembourg band serenaded the Senators (four of them from the South) with a lusty performance of Marching through Georgia...
Expatriate Raymond Duncan, the late Dancer Isadora's creaky, Hellenoid brother, long one of the sights of Paris (see cut), arrived in the U.S. to spend a year celebrating his 75th birthday. With the Attic cultist came a member of the faithful whom he introduced as Mrs. Aia Bertrand, "a sort of Svengali." He planned to put on his own opera ("a comic tragedy") in Manhattan's Town Hall, in which he would insure uniform quality by playing all the roles. Admission: free...
Ninette de Valois had seen that too. When Mrs. Hookham asked, "Is it worth spending more money on Margaret's lessons?"De Valois answered simply: "Nothing that you can spend on that child will be wasted. She has a future...
...chair was vacant at the head table last week when 350 Washington clubwomen gathered in the Mayflower Hotel for a luncheon meeting of the Community Chest. Over the fried chicken, a whisper spread among the guests. Finally Mrs. Henry Gichner rose and in a trembling voice confirmed the rumor: Miss Helen Hokinson had been "unavoidably detained . . . We have gotten the news that [her] plane has crashed ... It should be an example to all of us because . . . she was corning to help...