Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris. Her famed extremities are still as shapely as they were generations ago (see cut, p. 25). Nobody looks at her now-withered face, and since "Mees" no longer has the strength to do her Apache dances under her own power she is swung and flung about the stage by two virile youths. "Mees" last week came tottering from Bordeaux where she had been helping the Duchess of Windsor raise money for Finnish ambulances. "I may go to Holland and Belgium on tour," she croaked, "and I may go to America-there I think I might help...
...more or less appetizing forms. These in France can be either. The French spinster escapes certain laws which her smugly married sisters take as a matter of course, laws which definitely make the French husband master in his home. For example, a wife cannot go on the stage, open a bank account or obtain a French passport without her husband's explicit consent...
Divorced. Orson Welles. 24, "boy wonder" of stage and radio whose Martian invasion broadcast in October 1938 stampeded listeners-in; by Actress Virginia Nicolson Welles, 23; in Reno, Nev. She thought her husband had received "almost too much publicity...
...prosecution of the war makes it imperative that those who are charged with the grave responsibility of carrying on the Government of Canada should, in this critical period, be fortified by a direct and unquestioned mandate from the people. My advisers, accordingly, having regard to existing conditions and the stage of the life of the present Parliament, have decided upon an immediate appeal to the country...
...hard to discover from the picture as from history, and veteran Actress Ruth Gordon (in her first picture) does not do much to clarify it. But Canadian-born Raymond Massey's ill-kempt, loose-lipped, moody Lincoln is as good on the screen as on the stage, and the picture's best excuse for being...