Word: turnabout
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...many a moviegoer, Elsa Lanchester is just Charles Laughton's wife; but to Hollywoodians she is the burlesqueen of what is probably the world's toniest vaudeville palace: Los Angeles' Turnabout Theater. Last week Elsa gave her 2,000th performance at Turnabout, a full house gave her a rousing curtain call, and the management gave her a party...
...loves her work so much that for seven years, six nights a week, she has done it without pay. She finds payment enough in "the chance to use every ounce of creative energy that I have." That energy bubbles through about 50 musical skits (written by Turnabout's Forman Brown); in some of them Elsa rivals Bea Lillie at her best...
...England, come Saturdays, as many as 85,000 people flock to see the soccer games, but in the American turnabout soccer's mostly born to blush unseen. Yet for those who wish to see what now rates as the key contest of the College soccer season, the game starts at 1 o'clock as the undefeated Harvard and Dartmouth elevens clash in the old-English game...
...turnabout, Kootz proudly arranged to show his U.S. abstractionists in Paris' swank Maeght gallery. This week the Paris show closed in a hurt hush. The critics had not been kind. Said the influential Arts: "Is this exhibition ... to show us that abstract painting is no longer a secret in the U.S.? This art form cannot surprise or shock us, for we are familiar with it, but it must have quality, which is certainly lacking. . . ." Added Les Lettres Françaises: "One could imagine that these painters had not even studied the original canvases but had contented themselves with examining...
Americans have shown a willingness to take most of their information about communism and Russia from a curious and shameless lot of renegades. Krebs ("Valtin"), Kravehenko, and Budenz have followed each other, in renouncing the cause loudly in the tencent press. But it seems strange that a mere turnabout should qualify these men as respected experts; if, before, they were conspiratorial and totalitarian minded enemies of America and democracy, why are they now suddenly eligible for cocktail parties and the better publishing houses...