Word: porters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movie extension of this S. N. Behrman play into a musical spectacle involves songs & lyrics by Cole Porter, dances designed by Gene Kelly and Robert Alton, and the direction of Miss Garland's husband, the gifted Vincente Minnelli (The Clock, etc.). The color-juicy oils and dark pastels, used with taste and intelligence-equals the best on movie record (Vanity Fair, Colonel Blimp, Henry V), and is the one unqualified triumph of the show. The composition and movement have Minnelli's Mediterranean sumptuousness. The tunes and lyrics are good grade-B Porter. Miss Garland's tense, ardent...
There were booths and sideshows on Cambridge Common; one of these in 1797 featured a talking elephant that was reputed also to be able to drink thirty bottles of porter at a sitting. The visitors and the graduating seniors came in the height of the day's fashion--embroidered waistcoats, peach-blossom coats, and powdered wigs--,and one elderly lady sat up all night in her elbow chair before the 1758 Commencement in order not to disturb the arrangement of her hair...
Died. Claude McKay, 58, onetime Pullman porter and first Negro to write a bestseller (Home to Harlem, 1928); after long illness; in Chicago. A protege of Max Eastman, Poet-Author McKay drifted leftward through Communism to disillusionment, then swung to Catholicism, lost his high literary promise...
Harvard Club of Quincy: Richard Porter '35, 65 Greenleaf Street, Quincy 69. Harvard Club of Springfield (formerly Harvard Club of Connecticut Valley): Allen R. Benner '33, 4 Allen Place, Longmeadow...
Married. Edward Dmytryk, 39, ace Hollywood director (Crossfire) cited (with nine others) for contempt of Congress for refusing to tell whether he was a Communist; and Jean Porter, 24, player in B pictures; each for the second time; in Ellicott City...