Word: nugents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plushiest dressing rooms. Each of the three performers at the Morosco has a whole floor backstage. The three suites, which cost around $30,000, contain a dressing room, sitting room, kitchenette with refrigerator, bathroom without bath. Margaret Sullavan's first floor (see cut) is all feminine satin; Elliott Nugent's second floor, all masculine mahogany; Audrey Christie's third floor, all pink& blue...
Last week he took a flyer of his own in theater operating. With Playwright Russel Crouse, Actor Elliott Nugent and others, he bought a Broadway theater (the Hudson)-"so we needn't be subject to certain guys' whims and fancies." Naturally he also bought into the first show which he hopes will be produced there, a fall item for Boris Karloff being written by Lindsay and Crouse...
When Italy surrendered last September, three high British officers were glumly killing time in a prisoner-of-war camp near Florence. Air Marshal Owen Tudor Boyd had been captured late in 1940, when his transport was forced down in Sicily. Lieut. Generals Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor and Philip Neame, V.C., had been crudely kidnapped by a Nazi motorcycle patrol which stumbled across them in a stalled truck convoy near Derna, Libya, on a spring night...
...gayest evenings. Playwright van Druten (There's Always Juliet, Old Acquaintance) has not only written a winning light comedy around just three people, but has even managed to suggest that three's a crowd. For youthful Actress Sally Middleton (Margaret Sullavan) and Sergeant Bill Page (Elliott Nugent) two is company, and good comedy at that...
...production matches the play. Thirty-two-year-old Actress Sullavan, back on Broadway after six years in Hollywood, plays with skill, spirit and amazing youthfulness. Actor Nugent-beside whose naturalness a man in shirt sleeves with his feet on the desk seems posed-does a perfect job. And Actress Christie, as the trollop who gives Bill the goby, gives the play just the right touch of tabasco...