Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enduring Lawrence charm. She suggests the rakish, amusing, grey hound-style young women who in the middle '205 obsessed the fastidious heroes of Michael Aden's novels of Mayfair. Actually this Mayfairian tone is something Gertie only gradually acquired. She did not come to the theatre from England's upper crust. Born in London on July 4, 1898, baptized as Gertrude Alexandra Dagmar Lawrence Klasen, she was the daughter of a Danish interlocutor of a traveling minstrel show, and an Irish actress...
...pleasant setting for many a church supper, concert and pageant. Its pool will be used for public ice skating in winter, will help keep the church cool in summer. On this level the east and west wings contain an auditorium seating 500, reception room, kitchen, Bible School classrooms. The upper levels of the brick and Indiana limestone structure contain the light, airy church, a chapel, offices, schoolrooms, two baptistries...
...result of all this high-priced maladjustment is terribly funny, terribly upper class. No one could have written it better than Playwright Barry, who has written it often (Holiday, The Animal Kingdom, et al.}. No one could have adapted it better than pink-faced, pink-thinking Scenarist Donald Ogden Stewart. Both writers learned the proper inflections of the polite in the best clubs at Yale. Woven into their saga of the supertaxed is a thorough discussion of snobbery, from which they spring to the conclusion that it is possible to have money and social position and still be nice...
...Greek pluck are purely coincidental: Composer-Librettist Blitzstein began it more than two years ago, when most people thought of Greeks as hamburger-joint men. Mr. Blitzstein's Greeks are waiters in a summer hotel. They form a Diogenes Social Club, which burgeons into a union. A young upper-class couple fall in with the waiters: they want to learn the answers. To anyone who has ever seen a labor play, it is no surprise that They-the vigilantes, the Interests, the Fascists-kill the leader of the waiters, burn the club. From the leader's father...
...careful rehash of the previous ten years of her life, beginning when she was 15. This series of flashbacks first finds her as the society-struck daughter of a poor Philadelphia family from the wrong side of the tracks. Later she meets Wyn, a bulwark of the Main Line upper crust takes a job as his secretary. Their romance, marriage and divorce are tainted by their irreconcilable social positions which Wyn's stuffy family never let her forget. That is the shadow over Kitty Foyle's youth...