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Gigi goes each week to her great-aunt Alicia (Cathleen Nesbitt)-the immensely successful grande cocotte of the family who might be its dowager duchess-for lessons in how to eat ortolans or determine the comparative value of jewels. Aunt Alicia also decides which rich young Parisian shall launch her grandniece. But the play itself decides on a prettier ending: the chosen rake (Michael Evans) offers lovestruck Gigi no proposition but a proposal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 3, 1951 | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

...Eliot: The Cocktail Party (original Broadway cast: Alec Guinness, Cathleen Nesbitt, Robert Flemyng, Eileen Peel, Irene Worth, Ernest Clark, Grey Blake; Decca, 4 sides LP). Listening to this recording is an experience in the music of the English language, as well as a plunge into the drawing-room metaphysics of Poet Eliot's hit play (TIME, Jan. 30). Recording: excellent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, May 29, 1950 | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

...though its circulation never exceeded 900, was one of the most distinguished literary magazines in the English-speaking world.*In its first issue (March 3, 1923). baffled, brash, bumptious TIME reported that The Waste Land was rumored to have been written as a hoax. *Alec Guinness, Irene Worth, Cathleen Nesbitt, Robert Flemyng, Ernest Clark and Grey Blake. *Not a badly lined pocket, as poets' pockets go. Friends estimate that Eliot makes about ?4,000 ($11,200) a year, including some ?2,500 of royalties from his books and plays. His income from The Cocktail Party in Manhattan is about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: Mr. Eliot | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

...remainder of the game was largely a midfield stalemate. The Crimson, playing with a somewhat revised line and still bothered by injuries, seldom worked in close enough to give Amherst goalie Dan Nesbitt difficult chances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amherst Upsets Soccer Squad, 2-0 | 10/13/1949 | See Source »

...Rickenbacker (H) tied Morrison (MIT), 19 holes; Matson (H) tied Chisholm (MIT), 19 holes; Fuller (MIT) defeated O'Keefe (H), 3 and 2; Seager (H) tied Schoeffel (MIT), 18 holes; Denton (H) defeated Corrie (MIT) 4 and 3; Tisdale (MIT) defeated Lukins (H), 3 and 2; Mee (H) defeated Nesbitt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Night Stops MIT Golf Match in Tie | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

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