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This week the sovereign State of Missouri will set aside a day to honor a plump, loquacious spinster, Mary Margaret McBride, ex-citizen of Paris, Mo. Miss McBride, whose previous citations include an award from the Wall Paper Institute, has distinguished herself throughout the land as the most-listened-to female heart-to-hearter. Since 1934, under her own name and the pseudonym Martha Deane, she has babbled furiously about friends, featherbeds, food, life in Missouri, New York and Europe. Until a couple of months ago, she was heard over both CBS and the MBS station WOR, serving Columbia...
...best gooseflesh dramas in years, Kind Lady is an especial favorite with Brady because it is tailored to the talents of his wife, Grace George. In 1935, as a gentle, fragile spinster kept prisoner in her own home by a gang of terrifying crooks intent upon driving her potty, Miss George won great critical kudos. It was repeated last week...
...asked tall, spinster-like Independent Austin Hopkinson, had the Prime Minister insisted on making a mystery of the Swinton Committee...
...Grahamites. For it U. S. Composer Hunter Johnson had written a substantial, lengthy musical score; U. S. Scenic Designer Arch Lauterer had built an unprecedented stage load of secret panels, revolving doors and trick modernistic lighting effects. The ballet's subject: Poet Emily Dickinson, the New England spinster who never went out of her Amherst, Mass, house for 24 years, got all her excitement in her own head. Choregrapher Graham divided her ballet in half, gave the Dr. Jekyll half to a pleasant, domestic-looking chorine who recited excerpts from Emily Dickinson's hard-bitten verse. The frustrated...
...write The Old Familiar Faces; George Dyer, who could never distinguish between prose and poetry, was so near-sighted that he once disappeared into a river while the Lambs' maid was watching. Doctors sometimes advised Charles Lamb that this eccentric circle was not the healthiest one for a spinster afflicted with intermittent lunacy. But Mary Lamb seems to have felt quite at home in it. At times when she did not, or when Charles, who was something of a tosspot (Mary used to leave his bedroom door ajar so that Charles would not have to fumble at the latch...