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...stronger will than most. When she crashed David Belasco's office and recited the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet, he advised her to stick to music. The agent for the Aborn Opera Company was less kindly: "The voice may be okay," he said, "but lift your skirt, girlie, so I can see the legs." "Now, as I look back on it," says Grace Moore, "I've had quite a bit of leg trouble. Managers seemed never to consider the voice as a separate entity from what went on below." Her first bigtime job was as an understudy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Exuberant Grace | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

Most of the guests ate buffet style. But in a small back room the Molotovs sat with Harriman and his daughter Kathy, radiant in a long Alice blue gown; Clark Kerr and Alexander Korneichuk and his wife, Wanda Wasilewska, in a black silk skirt topped by a smart white lame jacket. When asked about Polish relations, Korneichuk, the new Foreign Commissar for the Ukraine, spoke charmingly about plans for rebuilding Kiev...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: AMONG THOSE PRESENT | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...twisted remains had been heaped together as they fell. Some had been officers, some privates; all wore faded blue-grey uniforms and tarnished brass buttons with the Polish eagle still recognizable. Dr. Prozorovsky wore a white smock, an orange apron and red rubber gloves. Kathy had on a plaid skirt, an orange pullover sweater and garnet nail polish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Day in the Forest | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

...these days the Queen of Beantown Burlesque since your Dad's college days, Ann Corio, is doing war relief work. Her local agent quoted her as declaring, "I'd give the skirt off--" but lot the bare facts speak for themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 12/10/1943 | See Source »

Life on the Fringes. Brown-haired Subaltern Mary Churchill had a busy, flattering vacation. Quebec girls sent her bundles of fan mail. She went shopping, headed straight for the underwear counter, confided to the clerk: "The ones I've got on, I made out of the skirt of an old evening dress." She held a press conference, described her father as "awfully nice to work for and not a bit difficult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rainbow at the Citadel | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

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