Word: perera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...networks this week was a rare storyteller with a novelty: Lydia Perera's Story to Order (NBC, Sun., 9:15-9:30 a.m. E.W.T...
...smart young mother in her mid-twenties, Storyteller Lydia Perera (in private life Mrs. Wil Marcus of Boston, Mass.) is a rarity among children's entertainers-she has a sense of humor and a sense of children's dignity that keep her from acting either cute or brimful of fake wonder. For her novel program, listeners send in lists of "any three things in the world," and around the three things Lydia writes her Story to Order. Sometimes they come out fantasies, sometimes realistic dramas, sometimes burlesques. Most of them are pretty good...
...orator, he prefers to read his speeches, which are, like himself, dry and sharp. He is married to a German-Chilean, Marta Ide Perera of the artistic Ide family, has a quiet, formal home life. He disapproved his three sons' music lessons lest culture should sissify them. For himself, he has preferred the wild horsemanship of el huaso, the Chilean cowboy...