Word: porters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...join the army." Writing of the day when the Germans took Rome in 1943: ". . . I looked into the courtyard of my old home [Palazzo Colonna]; a shell had struck the wall just over the window of what had been my bedroom as a girl . . . I was told that the porter and the butler had been wounded." On the American occupation of Rome, the Duchess wrote: "I must pay tribute to the tact and courtesy of all Allied officers I met, from those of the highest rank down to the humblest lieutenants . . . not one of them ever made me wince...
...connoisseurs of the theatrical arts and readers of time magazine already know, Cole Porter has written the songs for a new show known as "Kiss Mc, Kate." Among those songs is one called "Another Op'nin', Another Show." It is sung by a group of actors who are about to try out a production of "The Taming of the Shrew," in Baltimore, of all places...
...accident, which Porter seldom mentions and never complains about, has made him seem a more serious man than he once was. He is already at work on a score for a new show that Subber & Ayers plan for next fall; this week he leaves for Hollywood to help cast a second company of Kiss Me, Kate, which may turn out to be the biggest smash of his career...
...still clings to the Porter plan for living. He will be back in Paris in the spring-his first trip to Europe since his accident. His mansion in the French capital is now occupied by a school...
...Copyright 1948 by Cole Porter...