Word: tudors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...block of walk-up apartments: "modern" studios sandwiched between lead-heavy Jacobean dinettes and cluttered Victorian parlors. His stark plywood chairs were ornamented with fussy crocheted antimacassars, his baby carriages fashioned like battleships. The level-headed modern designer, set loose among America's gingerbread and fake Tudor suburbs and neo-Renaissance row houses, was in danger, according to Steinberg, of having his dearest creations turned into a series of meaningless stylistic mannerisms...
Team Play. Britain's triumph in aircraft design was due to a combination of free-enterprising plane builders, Labor government financing and good planning. It did much to wipe out the government's flop with the Tudor planes which had cost British taxpayers an estimated $28 to $40 million. As far back as 1942, the government had put grizzled Baron Brabazon of Tara (who holds Britain's Pilot License No. 1) at the head of a committee which mapped out five basic postwar types to go after the world plane market. Last week prototypes...
...going any place." She went a few places herself-a few blocks up Broadway to kick up her heels in such musicomedies as Virginia, Great Lady and Stars in Your Eyes. When Ballet Theatre started up in 1939, she tagged along to auditions with her roommate. What Choreographer Antony Tudor was doing was just the thing for Actress-Dancer. Nora Kaye: in his emotion-packed ballets she could combine the best she had learned from her actor-father with the best of ballet. With the premiere of Tudor's Pillar of Fire in 1942, Nora came to full flame...
...historians. "The Private Lives of Henry VIII" attempts to deal only with four of his marriages, throwing in a few lines here and there just to show that the king was interested in matters outside the field of sex. Some years ago a British writer observed that the great Tudor had become completely identified with the person of Charles Laughton in the mind of the typical schoolboy. His performance in this 1933 film is classic; whether historically accurate or not, the picture of Henry VIII in the mind of the average man today is Laughton's creation. In the same...
Last week Britain admitted it had lost its Tudor bet. In the House of Lords, Civil Aviation Minister Lord Pakenham solemnly intoned: "I have regretfully come to the conclusion that this type of aircraft should not continue to be used for carrying passengers...