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...show does boast opulent operatic trappings and Composer Weill's (Lady in the Dark, One Touch of Venus) full-bodied, romantically tuneful score. But even the tunes, pleasant as they are, suffer from a certain sameness...
...second Broadway show, as in her first (One Touch of Venus), jet-haired, slant-eyed Sono Osato catches and keeps the spotlight. She has personality and piquant looks as well as nimble feet...
Thus Christina Stead, author of the widely acclaimed House of All Nations (TIME, June 13, 1938), describes with mordant skill the turmoil within her young heroine, the schoolteacher who seemed such a prude but who alone in her room paraded her nudity in obscenely contrived costumes and prayed to Venus for fulfillment. Less convincing is Author Stead's description of Teresa's attempt to find an answer to her prayers...
Miss America of 1944 was chosen from eleven finalists at the annual Atlantic City contest. She is Venus Ramey, a 19-year-old secretary who entered as ''Miss Washington, D.C.," became the first redhead to win the title. Height: 5 ft. 7 in. Weight: 125 lbs. Bust: 36½. Waist: 25. Hips: 37½. Thigh...
...Germans had apparently kept their hand in. Perhaps the most famous of all Florence's paintings-Botticelli's Birth of Venus-was reported missing. The Germans had carried it off. said a cable last week, "in payment for winter coal." Florence had apparently lost a supreme product of the period which, wrote Walter Pater, represented "the care for physical beauty, the worship of the body, the breaking down of those limits which the religious system of the middle age imposed on the heart and the imagination...