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...tribesmen sing practically everything except Been Wukkin' on de Railroad. In the long run El Khobar is exonerated, the pianist gets the girl. The one bit which heartily commends The Desert Song to a world at war is a sizzling dancer (see cut, p. 94), by name Sylvia Operte who really hits the ouled-nail on the head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 10, 1944 | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

...futureless productions of Shakespeare in Regent's Park Open Air Theatre. She was about to leave the theater a suicide note and go back to Commerce. But one night, while Greer was in the bleak gentility of The University Women's Club, high-glazed, handsome Authoress Sylvia Thompson (The Hounds of Spring) sauntered over and said: "I've been watching you all through dinner; are you by any chance an actress? It's ridiculous, I hardly know you; but I feel you're exactly the person we want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ideal Woman | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...years later, Greer Garson was one of the most promising young British actresses of her generation. She shared a handsome flat with her handsome mother in brightest Mayfair. She swapped fancy conversational popcorn with Bernard Shaw, was friend, colleague and mental ping-pong partner of people like Noel Coward, Sylvia Thompson, Laurence Olivier, Margaret Webster. In two years, during which she had only two weeks' vacation, she worked in no fewer than eight plays. Nearly all of them were flops. But Miss Garson was never a flop. She had ability. She had presence. She had a ferocious and exacting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ideal Woman | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...Louise Beng, Edith V. Bradley, Mary Geraldine Cox, Charles Demetropolis, Marie Flarrel, Marjovie L. Goodrich, Adele N. Haggman, Evalyn Leots Hargen, Mary T. Renneberry, N. Jane Hell, Clare E. McGowan, Leonora A. Maroney, Ruth Mafas, Estherine B. Murray, Georgs T. Myles, Adele Paniser, Shirley Ann Shields, Mary Stepico, Sylvia Sugarman, Maribe Wilson, Evangeline M. Zollars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHAPLAIN SCHOOL | 12/10/1943 | See Source »

Friday Evening, May 28 Overture: Poet and Peasantvon Suppe Suite from "Rodeo" Copland Warsaw Concerto Addinsell (Piano: Leo Litwin) Brazil Barroso Saturday Evening, May 29 Overture: "Russian and Ludmilla" Glinka Concerto in F Gershwin (Piano: Jesus Maria Sanroma) Suite from Ballet: "Sylvia" Delibes Prelude to "The Deluge" Saint-Saons "On the Trail," from Grand Canyon Suite Grofe Sunday Evening, May 30 No concert

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Week in Music | 5/28/1943 | See Source »

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