Word: palmers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). An Ideal Husband, with Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer...
...bright stunts like a slowly uncoiling sentence 293 words long. But on the stage the play lacks pace and flow, the detail eats up the design. Venus is none the better for Sir Laurence Olivier's irresolute staging, which leaves most of the cast uncharacterized and even Lilli Palmer living entirely off charm. The splendid exceptions are Rex Harrison as the duke and John Williams as the estate manager. Fry, in his own words, is here coruscating on thin ice; and he has forgotten Emerson's warning that in skating on thin ice, "our safety...
...public gaze, named her "Jr.," tacked "Sr." to her own name and retired to the wings. She coached the young beauty into a quick, bright career as the Glamour Girl of 1939, but all ended in confusion when Cobina Jr. threw up her Hollywood contracts and married wealthy young Palmer Beaudette, son of a Detroit manufacturer. It took Cobina Sr. a long time to adjust to the change in her plans. It was two years, she confesses, before she was "made whole," and reconciled to the marriage...
...Among the productions new to Broadway will be: Laurence Olivier's production of Christopher Fry's Venus Observed, with Lilli Palmer and Rex Harrison; Fancy Meeting You Again, a play about reincarnation by George S. Kaufman and Leueen MacGrath; Herman (The Caine Mutiny) Wouk's Modern Primitive; Enid (National Velvet) Bagnold's Gertie, starring Glynis Johns...
Died. Hilary Aidan St. George Saunders, 53, official British war historian; of asthma; in Nassau. Under the pen names of Francis Beeding and David Pilgrim, Saunders collaborated with John Palmer on some 40 thrillers (Eleven Were Brave), but it was his anonymous histories of Britain's role in World War II (The Battle of Britain; Combined Operations) that reached the top of the bestseller lists (more than 12 million copies...