Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Distress Sale. In Nice, France, where condemned men pay for their traditional, hearty last supper, condemned but broke Collaborationist Eugéne de Balinfly raised cash for his by having four teeth yanked, selling the gold crowns...
...less than a month, the First Lady had I) entertained no Washington newswomen at a White House buffet supper; 2) gone to an ice show in the glittery Iridium Room of Manhattan's St. Regis Hotel; 3) lunched at the exclusive Colony Restaurant with Party-master Elsa Maxwell; 4) attended the opening of the Metropolitan Opera; 5) journeyed to Philadelphia with the President to see the Army-Navy football game...
...three hours I stood outside the Carlton and had to watch while he bought flowers for Ondra and invited her for supper. ... I am now going to buy some more sleeping tablets. At least then I will be half dazed. . . . According to Frau Hoffmann ... he now has a substitute for me. Her name is Walküre and she looks it, including her legs...
...girls through a gym routine that often includes intricate steps from her rich repertory of folk dances. Then she teaches geometry, algebra, English, physics, chemistry and a variety of foreign languages until 3:30, when it is time to go home to clean house and start Fred's supper. Fred spends his days on administrative chores, touring the schools, filling in as a teacher whenever necessary, and working on his sideline job as president of the township bank...
...extra-something picturesque and a little touching. But the play lets Frankie down as badly as his partner did. Intended as a colorful has-been, Frankie merely seems like something that never was. And as a story, Beggars is no Better. The flowering of romance between Frankie and the supper club's leg-some cigaret girl (Dorothy Comingore) is banal and forced. When Frankie tries to act tough, Playwright Reeves lets comedy seep into scenes that should be hard-hitting theater, and they wind up as nothing. The best things about Beggars are its amusing glimpses of nightclub office...