Word: nights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fairly overran the 2,000 city police who were assigned to guard the Queen. "That's a lovely billy-I'd like to borrow it some time," cracked Prince Philip to a Chicago cop as he eyed the yelling people. "Hi, Liz!" they cried. "Hey, Queen!" That night at a glittering dinner (with gold tablecloths, gold service, 50,000 roses) given by Mayor Richard Daley, the Queen confessed happily: "This has been an unforgettable...
...Olivier, 52, first knight of the British theater and probably the greatest living English-language actor. The play: Coriolanus, William Shakespeare's least popular major work. The stage: Shakespeare Memorial Theater at Stratford on Avon, where critics are only too eager to fault the stars. But on opening night last week they agreed with the capacity crowd of 1,380 that this was outstanding Olivier...
...though the situation may be, stocky (5 ft. 7 in., 155 Ibs., 38-28-38 in his padding) T. C. Jones is sticking to his specialty. "I'd like to play Dame May Whitty's part in Night Must Fall," says he, "or Bankhead's in The Little Foxes.Half the time people don't even know I'm not a woman. When I pulled offmy wig at the end of New Faces, one woman said audibly: 'Oh, the poordear, she's bald...
...reviews. But those who had read the novel from which the movie was made should have realized that it was a phony from the start. The Spitter was written 13 years ago by Boris Vian (a civil engineer by day, a jazz trumpeter in a Left Bank cave by night); its publishers claimed that it was a translation from a U.S. novel by one Vernon Sullivan. The public loved its fake sociology and integrated lust, but when police found a copy beside a murder victim and saw that the book was opened to the account of a similar crime...
...them all, playing a guitar and singing the hillbilly songs he had learned from his U.S. Army buddies. Between 1951 and 1953 he rode a Finnish tanker from Odessa to Mexico to the Far East. Once, he remembers, his ship got to the U.S. where he won an amateur-night contest singing Spanish songs he had learned in Mexico. "I sang Mexican songs in the U.S. and hillbilly songs in Mexico," he explains. "No use pushing your luck...