Word: show-off
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ASSOCIATION OF PRODUCING ARTISTS, Hollywood, Calif. The APA returns to the Huntington Hartford Theater for a ten-week season ending Sept. 16. The program includes Ibsen's The Wild Duck, the Pirandello puzzler, Right You Are If You Think You Are, George Kelly's The Show-Off, and the American premiere of Pantagleize, by De Ghelderode...
...child of the Midland slums, the son of a domineering and ambitious pawnbroker father who eventually became a fairly prosperous solicitor. Handicapped by a stammer that in childhood made him jerk epileptically and bite the air, he grew up painfully shy and covered his shyness with the show-off's mantle. He was as frugal as a ragpicker, carefully kept a record of each shilling tip, constantly worried about money...
...Elizabethans. Furthermore, they contend that Merrick's angles and bangles and broad Broadway way have revived the allure of live theater for thousands who had come to think that actors are just people who live in a tube. And finally, they add defiantly, Merrick is far more than a show-off showman. If his vaulting ambitions do not o'erleap, he may even be remembered as a considerable theatrical re former, a man who with one sudden brainstorm built up a new creative tide in the U.S. theater...
Rather than providing a show-off gallery for spectacular single works, the new quarters allow a historical layout of period rooms, include an education department, a 200-seat auditorium, a junior museum and a 2,500-volume art library. For the new sculpture court, Sir Jacob Epstein's widow gave six of his busts, including one of Somerset Maugham. Soon the Far Eastern gallery will put on display a distinguished collection of Han-dynasty pottery, on extended loan. Donald DeCoursey Harrington, a gas and oil investor living in Texas, has donated 47 paintings from Boudin to Vuillard that make...
...magazine into something racy. "Sex," she says, "will not be dragged in by the heels; it will just be there naturally." Though her husband David once edited Cosmopolitan for a few years, Mrs. Brown would be the last to claim she is in competition with men. "Men hate loudmouth, show-off dames," she has written. But in case she should turn termagant under the pressures of her first executive job, she offers her employees an escape hatch. "If you happen to have drawn a female Tartar, young or old," she wrote in Sex and the Office, "I'd suggest...