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...prosaic moniker alongside such inspired noms de dishabille as Gaza Stripp, Helen Bedd, and the ecclesiastical ecdysiast. Norma Vincent Peel...
...play. He has not, fortunately, tried to intellectualize Blood Wedding; but neither has he stylized it, given the characters some central idea of movement and speech on which to hang their parts They even talk in different accents; the Mother (Tina Morse) strong Spanish, the Mother-in-law (Norma Anderson) mildly cockney, the rest ordinary American. This strikes one as odd, admittedly, only when one can hear them, for they conspire in whispers on a set placed so far back from the apron that actors and audience rarely make contact...
...NORMA RIDLEY Tulsa, Okla...
Miss Britain quit to ban the bomb and Miss U.S.A. wailed: "My mouth is actually sore from smiling." But the smiles were just beginning for the grocer's daughter from Argentina, who proved to have the most universal appeal at the contest in Miami: Norma Beatriz Nolan, Miss Universe of 1962, a rare blend of Irish, Italian and Spanish, statistically 24, 5 ft. 6 in., 120 lbs. and 35-25-36. The perquisites of office are $15,000 cash and a $7,000 mink coat; the duties include promotional tours of Portugal, Korea, Canada, Mexico and all points south...
...creasing and diminishing its volume. She did it as if she were twirling a knob on a hi-fi amplifier. Some of this was wasted on numbers like Old Black Joe, but she al ways sang parts from the operas in which she had won her fame, from Norma to Lucia di Lammermoor...