Word: musi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shelley was born in East St. Louis, Ill., went through Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn, modeled in Manhattan's garment district, had a fling at musi-comedy and horse operas. In Larceny, she worked with a young director (George Sherman) and two writers fresh from radio (Herbert Margolis and Louis Morheim) who let her try Tory her own way. She gave it a strong blend of sex, humor, loneliness and desperation. A fair percentage of males in any audience might be scared of Tory, but few would run away...
Last week, in the mud flats adjoining the Musi River, in a 50-mile enclave only recently cleared by the Dutch of Indonesian insurgents, Palembang started refining stored crude left by the Japanese. The wells, some dynamited and others partly .destroyed by fire, were just beginning to flow. But tough, ruddy-faced Harry A. Gibbon, who had led Standard's task force to Palembang, hopes to have them in full production soon. By summer, he expects" to have Palembang turning out its prewar 45,000 barrels...
Show Boat. Still a captivating musi-comedy, with probably the best-loved of all American musicomedy scores (TIME...
Adele Astaire, 46, who twinkletoed to fame with brother Fred in many a musi-comedy (Funny Face, The Band Wagon) before she became Lady Charles Cavendish, returned to Manhattan as effervescent as ever after a decade of country gentility in England and Eire. She announced that Fred had decided to quit hoofing after his next picture ("which pleases me, for I want the boy to live awhile"). She thought that U.S. living would put her in better shape: "It is wonderful to see all the lovely girdles. You know our posteriors have spread quite a bit over there...
...thing the News forgot to tell its readers: how Jimmy Walker felt about it. That skinny, glib, ingratiating Irishman, who at 63 still looks like an aging musi-comedy juvenile, has rung up many a useful dollar since he left the mayor's office in a hurry in 1932, just as graft investigations by Judge Samuel Seabury and Governor Franklin Roosevelt were getting uncomfortably close to him. Next week Jimmy's $20,000-a-year contract as "impartial Czar" of the cloak-&-suit industry runs out, but he already has another job, the presidency of a new phonograph...