Word: playboy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theodore Allegretti '47, who starred in the HDC production of Synge's "Playboy of the Western World" in 1943, heads a cast in which Miss Kay Casselle, Radcliffe '47, Edwin Franklin '47, Andrew McCullough '47, Louis Weinman '46, Robert Lubchansky '48, and John Simon '45 also play leading roles. A Simmons College girl has been cast in a minor part...
Last week Czechoslovakia's playboy Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk answered a toast to the "United Nations" at a swank London lunch by warning his colleagues against "too many cocktail parties." To an acquaintance, Masaryk commented: "Coming from me, that sounds pretty funny...
...history-the tall, gaunt youth from the Middle West, the harness maker's son who rose to be the second most powerful man in the land. He began as a social worker, but he was always more than that: a politician, a finagler, something of a playboy and something of an intellectual, a man who moved with equal ease in the circles of the rich and the tenements of lower Manhattan. In 1928, he met the man who gave his life direction...
...intrigue with Germany and, in any case, Reza Shah was too strong a character to be left athwart the Lend-Lease supply line to the U.S.S.R. So he was deposed, last year in far away Johannesburg died, full of bitter memories. Mohamed Reza, the wavy-haired young playboy, ascended the jeweled Peacock Throne of Iran...
...heroine, Penny Parker (Susanna Foster) frequently climbs out of herself in double-exposure to step into her dream life (a series of low-budget production numbers in a light operatic vein). Her waking existence involves a rich theatrical playboy (Franchot Tone), the youthful owner (David Bruce) of an all-night diner and six ill-clad orphans who play it for pathos. Susanna Foster wades into her role with breathless enthusiasm, bubbling and flaring as the script demands. Her ardor is not shared by Franchot Tone, who goes about his post-adolescent lovemaking with one eye on the lady...