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Daggers from Faye. Next, crabs began to crawl over Diana's bedroom ceiling ("Can you get DTs when you're only thirty?"). A heart attack carried off husband Bob, leaving Diana at the mercy of strong-minded Dan Freeman, her summer-stock leading man. Dan led Diana to a children's playground, murmured: "Come on, baby, sit in the swing . . . You're a sick girl. Diana . . . You are going to get to God." Instead. Diana found Dan massaging her back, crooning gently: "Ei-lu-lu, Bab-en-u. Ei-lu-lu-lu-lu. Baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ei-lu-lu .. . Baby | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

Married. Gloria Laura Morgan Vanderbilt, 32, wan, wistful heiress (to $4,500,000), mother of two (by Maestro Leopold Stokowski), summer-stock actress, painter and poetess, whose 1955 volume, Love Poems, was dedicated "For S and the Search"; and the book's presumed dedicatee, Sidney Lumet, 32, tenement-raised onetime Broadway actor, horn-rimmed director of TV (You Are There), cinema (Twelve Angry Men) and stage (The Doctor's Dilemma); she for the third time, he for the second (his first: Cinemactress Rita Gam); in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 10, 1956 | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

Power of Suggestion. In Toledo, a summer-stock production of Dracula was interrupted when a bat flew in the front door, barged around for 20 minutes until finally knocked down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 23, 1954 | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

Take It Seriously. Other off-Broadway theaters scattered around lower Manhat tan and Greenwich Village are serving as useful a purpose as the Phoenix. Like summer-stock houses, they are the training ground for a vast number of young actors, artists and designers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Boom off Broadway | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

...Braves reacted like a bunch of summer-stock actors hitting Broadway; they played over their heads. But this week, as the Braves came home to the wide-open arms of Milwaukee after winning 15 of 21 games on the road, they were still running neck and neck with the Brooklyn Dodgers for the league lead. And National League fans were not so sure that the Braves were playing over their heads after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Top of the League | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

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