Word: nancye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vocally, the performance did not go as well. Though Nancy Shelton's lower register was solid and assured, her soprano was far too insecure on the high notes to make her long and beautiful aria really affecting. On the other hand, the low notes of the contralto aria were the...
Flawed and fragile early novels are often like youthful snapshots: a source of faint discomfort to the author, a delight to the doting fan, and a revealing glimpse into the past. Two such novels have now been issued in the U.S., one by Nancy Mitford, the British author (Love in...
Medals & Marks. Nancy Mitford's Pigeon Pie (British Book Centre; 186 pp.; $2.95) was first published in 1940, and shows it. The book is a gay little farce about the early days of the war, and to Author Mitford, in that innocent year, war was something tiresome that men...
Referring to the possibility that the American Friends Service Committee take over the job of providing a central listing, Mrs. Nancy St. John, community relations secretary of the Cambridge AFSC, said that the committee will tackle the problem only if existing housing agencies request it to.
The rest of this elegantly furnished, tastefully Metrocolored film, in which director Jean (A Certain Smile) Negulesco has tried to turn Nancy Mitford's nit-witty high-society farce (TIME, Oct. 15, 1951) into a conventional comedy, develops into a fairly funny, mildly sophisticated what-is-it, rather like...