Word: porter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hampshire country girl, she finally gets a lead in a New York musical show. James Stewart who plays opposite her as the luckless Naval officer is duped by a rival actress in a publicity stunt. Their alternate weals and woes give them ample opportunity to sing such tantalizing Cole Porter hits as "Easy to Love," "I've Got You Under My Skin"' and at least six others. Eleanor Powell sings, taps, and whirls with just about as much appeal as we could wish. Sid Silver and gangling Buddy Ebsen would brighten any show with their asinine antics. There are spots...
...forthwith. Beaming at this unexpected pleasure. Chairman Landis read to newshawks a letter of congratulation he had written North American's President James F. Fogarty, acknowledging the utilities' right to challenge any SEC action once they were registered. As he finished, in strode grey old Henry Hobart Porter, elder brother of National Distillers' Seton Porter and President of American Water Works. "Congratulations, Mr. Porter," said Mr. Landis, "I am telling the press that everything I said to Mr. Fogarty in his letter will be applicable...
...summer. Outstanding in a large number of gifts of sculpture were a monumental Japanese figure of the 15th century donated by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, of Washington, a 13th century Gothic tomb figure in wood from Spain, donated as a memorial to the late Professor A. Kingsley Porter, and a bronze statuette of a champion stallion from Herbert Haseltine, the sculptor...
...GEORGE PORTER...
...opening night performance much to her lover's joy. But in any film of amusement the plot must be ignored. Weakening the bountiful entertainment is the grating voice of languorous Virginia Bruce, who plays the musical comedy star. Among the pieces all of which were written by Cole Porter, "I'm Nuts About You" stands...