Word: velvet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kiss Me Kate (1949), she raised double-entendre to a fine art, singing I'm Always True to You, Darling, in My Fashion. Since then, she has concentrated on elegant watering holes in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles. As she became perhaps the most velvety fixture in the velvet reaches of the posh supper clubs, she also helped set a trend toward acts with gimmicks. In her present carefully written show, Lisa does not take a shower on the dance floor (as she managed to a couple of seasons ago), but she does just about everything else...
Author Panova shares Boris Pasternak's poetic affection for the Russian land. Serioja races across "black velvet ploughland" or watches the white-snow cling like "fat white caterpillars on the branches of the trees." Toward novel's end, the boy tastes bitter desolation when his stepfather is assigned a new post, and it appears that Serioja's health may force the family to leave him behind. At the last moment, seeing that parting will destroy the child, the stepfather scoops him up in a happy ending that is movingly true to the essential spirit of the book...
...drama: Dear Liar, an adaptation by Actor Jerome Kilty of the famed letters between George Bernard Shaw and Victorian Actress Stella (Mrs. Patrick) Campbell. Nor was it precisely right for the stars: clip-toned Brian Aherne playing opposite no less a grande dame than Katharine Cornell, resplendent in velvet gowns by Cecil Beaton...
Born. To Mel Tormé, 33, cream-voiced crooner, once known as "The Velvet Fog," and Arlene Tormé, 28: their first child, a son (Tormé has two sons by an earlier marriage); in Hollywood. Name: Tracy. Weight...
Dolled up to the royal nines, glowing, velvet-eyed Princess Soraya, 26, ex-wife of Iran's Shah, paid a formal call on the proud old Roman family of the man whom the gossipists keep saying she will marry: handsome, unwealthy Prince Raimondo Orsini, 27. But Vatican and Iranian court circles frown on the romance, and Raimondo's low income seems no match for Soraya's high tastes. The betting of Romans in the know: no wedding...