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Word: ungenteel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Magnolia Alley (by George Batson; produced by Lester Cutler) was already, at week's end, part of Memory Lane. It set out to picture the life of a shabby-ungenteel rooming house in a Southern town. The characters included a landlady with a past and a thirst (Jessie Royce Landis); her daughter, a boxer's wife and almost anybody's woman; her adopted daughter, a rather noisily religious girl; her chief roomer, a Magnolia Streetwalker; and enough men to illustrate the women's ways. Done right, it might have been enjoyably raffish. Since Playwright Batson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, May 2, 1949 | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

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