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Robert Flemming and Jane Baxter are more than perfect as Algy and Cecily, but the brave attempts of Pamela Brown, miscast in the part of Gwendolyn, are somewhat negated by her unfittingly low voice. The decor by Motley is more than suitable: it rivals the more famous work of Cecil Beaton on this year's "Lady Windermere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 2/12/1947 | See Source »

...wife of Fascist Leader Sir Oswald Mosley (she spent most of World War II in jail); 3) Jessica, who eloped to Spain, married Winston Churchill's nephew, the late Esmond Romilly (missing in action since 1941), and is now married to a left-wing San Francisco lawyer; 4) Pamela, wife of Derek Ainslie Jackson, a British physicist who has ridden as a jockey in the Grand National Steeplechase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All in the Family | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

Winston Churchill had another divorce in the family-the second in 1945.* Year's first had been Daughter Sarah's from Comedian Vic Oliver. Now column-writing Son Randolph was dropped by the former Pamela Digby, after six years, one son. Said she: 1) he had been rude to her in public; 2) had once walked out in the middle of the night; 3) had spent evenings at the officers' mess; 4) had told her he was "fed up"; 5) had "seemed to prefer a bachelor's existence." She got custody of five-year-old Winston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: First Families | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

...famed diatribe against Samuel Richardson's much-revered classic, Pamela, Henley insisted that it was Britain's mealy-mouthed writers, not her realists, who made "fornication [not] a detail (as it is in life)" but "the staple of the book." Readers were not accustomed to such blunt talk in the '80s, and under Henley's editorship, one magazine after another lost the bulk of its subscribers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unbowed Head | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

Said 15-year-old Pamela Morrison, fresh from the gilded movie-palaces and milkshake counters of Rochester, N.Y.: "I'm going back to live in a house 500 years old-in a hick town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: H. M. Snappy Subjects | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

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