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Word: nora (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...program for Monday. The first of these was Agnes De Mille's "Fall River Legend," which is "suggested by" the story of Lizzie Borden, who "took an axe and gave her mother 40 whacks." It is an interesting theater-piece, but made so mostly by the miming of Nora Kaye and the sets of Oliver Smith...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE DANCE | 12/7/1949 | See Source »

...Oklahoma!" and "Carousel," and the parts of "Fall River Legend" which seemed the best were those dealing with the townspeople, who can be alternately gossipy, jubilant, and mournful. Miss De Mille is a spontaneous humorist and her townspeople are quite familiar. It is, oddly enough, in the dances of Nora Kaye that the interest lags and apparently Miss De Mille has nothing much to say, except that the murderess was a lonely, rejected girl. It is a tribute to Nora Kaye's dramatic abilities rather than her recognized dancing talents, that "Fall River Legend" is saved from the lugubrious...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE DANCE | 12/7/1949 | See Source »

Once in a Blue Moon. Among her closest friends are Helpmann, Ashton, Dancer Pamela May, the U.S. Ballet Theatre's Nora Kaye and Les Ballets de Paris' Roland Petit (TIME, Oct. 17). With such people Margot enjoys after-theater suppers or whipping up a home-cooked meal and bringing out some really good wine. One of her extravagances is expensive clothes, but, like most ballerinas, she darns the toes of her own ballet slippers (she brought 40 pairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Coloratura on Tiptoe | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Divorced. Errol Leslie Flynn, 40, cinemactor; by Nora Eddington Flynn, 25; after six years of marriage, two children; in Las Vegas, Nev. Nora announced that she would marry Crooner Dick Haymes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 18, 1949 | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

Divorced. By Joanne Dru, 26, brunette cinemactress (Red River): Crooner Dick Haymes, 32; after seven years of marriage, three children; in Reno. Joanne announced that "it's probably in the cards" that 1) she will marry Actor John Ireland, and 2) Haymes will marry Nora Eddington Flynn as soon as Nora gets her divorce this month from Cinemactor Errol Flynn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 11, 1949 | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

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