Word: mrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris, Gallico...
...Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot, Wilson...
...dusty curtain divided it in half, and on the working side there were still 1,310 seats. It was hardly the setting for an intimate, sophisticated new drama: Dear Liar, an adaptation by Actor Jerome Kilty of the famed letters between George Bernard Shaw and Victorian Actress Stella (Mrs. Patrick) Campbell. Nor was it precisely right for the stars: clip-toned Brian Aherne playing opposite no less a grande dame than Katharine Cornell, resplendent in velvet gowns by Cecil Beaton...
...fidgeted at the length: two full hours on a virtually bare stage. But almost everyone enjoyed the unfolding affair by letter, which began in 1899 when Actress Campbell was at the height of her beauty and Playwright Shaw at the beginning of his brilliance, and ended in 1940 when Mrs. Campbell died in bitter poverty and Shaw at 82 plaintively wrote...
...Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot, by Angus Wilson. An English widow sentenced under the law of diminishing returns to social work, the company of Angry Young Men, and bohemian...