Word: sweetheart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinese cabaret songstress named Hue Lee, enjoyed a modest popularity. By last week Mei Kuei's old Chinese friends would have scarcely recognized it. The Chinese lyrics had been uprooted; the new ones told the touching story of a Tommy's farewell to his Malayan sweetheart. As Rose, Rose, I Love You, the song stood No. 2 on Britain's hit parade...
...alphabet, the trustees announced that they had stopped at the letter K. The man they picked, out of 641 candidates proposed: Lawrence Alpheus Kimpton, 40, a University of Chicago vice president and a big, shaggy, good-humored man whom Hutchins once referred to as "240 pounds and all sweetheart...
...best male dancer was not exaggerated. For his first guest appearance with Ballet Theater, mop-haired little (5 ft. 5 in.) Dancer Babilée, 27, chose the ballet which first brought him fame, Le Jeune Homme. His role: that of a young artist who is abandoned by his sweetheart. In the violent, Apache-like dances that the ballet calls for, he revolved around his taunting sweetheart (beautifully danced by pert Nathalie Philippart, his wife) with the intensity of an angry bird. His tremendous leaps, over chairs and tables, were sudden darts into the air. Even with its hanging scene...
...three male roles--the successful lover, the defeated childhood sweetheart, and the ghost of Nathaniel Coombs--played by Robert Sterling, Robert Smith, and Richard Waring are also handled well. Waring, who did a magnificent portrayal of the schoolboy in "The Corn Is Green," has retained his Welsh accent, and after a weak first act start, he makes the ghost into a warm and believable figure...
...Peggy Wood, is human enough to get in a temper just because she's having a bad day. Earnest, bumbling father Lars (Judson Laire), who often wears his head, as well as his heart, on his sleeve, can be as calamitously wrong in business as over an old sweetheart...