Word: thora
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every night for the past six weeks in the London hit A Queen Came By, Actress Thora Hird had spoken these lines in fear and trembling, while a sympathetic stage manageress stood in the wings with a glass of brandy at the ready. Whenever she spoke them, said Actress Hird, the second-hand Victorian jacket she wore in the third act tightened inexplicably about her neck and invisible hands seemed to choke...
Television in the Bathroom. For some time Thora suffered in silence. But recently fiftyish Understudy Erica O'Foyle had to go on for her. Like many another understudy in her big moment, Erica was nervous, but she did fine for two acts. Then she put on the bewitched jacket and started the third. She went pale, choked and forgot her lines. "My throat went suddenly dry," she explained weakly after the curtain finally came down. "I felt a great hand clutching me from behind. It was horrible." She indignantly denied any suggestion that the trouble might have stemmed from...
...Knight, ex-reporter and Hollywood writer, emigrated to the U. S. as adolescent.) Deft but less vivid, The Happy Land tells the story of a coal-mining Yorkshire village on the dole. In particular it is the story of the motherless Clough family, the spunky fight of eldest daughter Thora against depression odds which send one brother to prison, frustrate the talents of another, turn her father into a fiercely baffled radical, make tormenting alterations in her love life...