Word: pertness
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...file with the Association was a formal protest against the exclusion of women from the party. Its author was Mrs. Elizabeth May Craig, correspondent for four Maine papers, pert president of the Women's National Press Club (TIME, June...
Second-fiddling the fun is pert, legsome June Havoc (Pal Joey), cast as a lady bullfighter from the States, and given to such rhymed ruefulness...
Adding extra spin to the dancing is pert Vera-Ellen, the cutest musicomedy trick of the season. Surviving from the original score, and still giving satisfaction, are My Heart Stood Still, Thou Swell, On a Desert Island, I Feel At Home With You. Show-stopping new song, thanks to Lorenz Hart's funny lyrics and Vivienne Segal's brilliant delivery, is To Keep My Love Alive, a saga of a lady who industriously murdered her mates seriatim...
Nobody has ever played the game of U.S. concert management with a shrewder gambler's eye than pudgy, Russian-born Sol Hurok of Manhattan. Last week Hurok gambled $120,000 on one of the longest and prettiest shots of his career. She was a pert, dark-haired, 18-year-old coloratura soprano named Patrice Munsel. For his $120,000, Hurok got the rights to Patrice's concert and radio appearances for three years. On an operatic filly who has not yet run her maiden race, that was tall betting...
Agnes de Mille, pert, energetic niece of Hollywood Producer Cecil B. De Mille, who has brilliantly mixed classical ballet patterns with the horsy folk-dancing of the Wild West. Her most fetching job is perhaps the dancing in the Broadway musical smash, Oklahoma...