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Kaye is indebted to his writers, Sylvia Fine and Max Liebman, for some fine material. His script makes full use of his abilities as a singer and a mimic. An excellent example of this is a scene in a movie lobby, in which Kaye careens down stairs, parodies dance steps and movie plots, while screaming lines like this screen credit list...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/24/1951 | See Source »

...Sylvia Smith: Cabot; Class secretary; Christian Fellowship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Starts Student Government Balloting | 3/7/1951 | See Source »

...young New York City Ballet Company, balletomanes could smile at that one. Combining gusto with flawless technique, Maria's performance in Firebird already ranks as one of the finest in present-day ballet; her other specialties, e.g., the Balanchine-Bizet Symphony in C, her Pas de Deux from Sylvia, and Divertimento, are danced with the style and confidence of a great prima ballerina. And, at 25, she has a lot of ballet ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: American as Wampum | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

...member of the law firm handling Mrs. H. Sylvia Wilks' will said last night that Harvard will get 4/140 of the over $70,000,000 residuary estate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Is Left $2,000,000 of Green Estate | 2/24/1951 | See Source »

Died. Mrs. Hetty Sylvia Ann Howland Green Wilks, 80, possibly the world's richest woman (worth $100 to $125 million), daughter of Hetty Green, "The Witch of Wall Street" (1835-1916); in Manhattan. As a girl, she often lived in shabby flats, cooked and sewed to save pennies for her millionaire mother. She grew up an ungainly recluse, usually dressed in black, at 38 married 57-year-old Matthew Astor Wilks, great-grandson of Millionaire John Jacob Astor I. Wilks left her a mere million to add to nearly $50 million from her mother, $43 million from her brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 19, 1951 | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

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