Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exciting place for parades, block parties, silk hats, first nights, and baseball games. Some of its sidewalks sparkle (because of mica in the concrete). Its cab drivers, individualists all, deliver wild, cheerful or threatening monologues on world affairs. Its well-barbered women worship fashion; they shop like stalking tigresses, dress like lady spies and walk with a provocative...
...County Mayo, Ireland, the eldest of eleven children. His mother, a strong-willed woman, was determined that he should be a priest. To please her, when he was 18, he went off to Spain and the University of Salamanca. But Spain made him restless-he steeped himself in the wild history of the Spanish conquistadors* -and after a year and a half he went to Cherbourg, and slipped off to America in the steerage of a liner...
Timing & Histrionics. In St. Louis, where he packs them to the rafters, Wild Bill Longson demonstrates an experienced actor's adroit timing. Wild Bill knows exactly when a kick aimed at his opponent's groin will bring down an avalanche of hearty boos. His histrionic skill earns him $1,500 an appearance. Barrel-chested Yvon Robert (rhymes with snow bear) has done so well at playing hero in his home town that he is now co-owner in a profitable sideline: a fancy Montreal nightclub called El Morocco. Gargantuan Primo Camera has no particular gimmick...
...enemies call him a great old ham actor, a sort of Monty Woolley of art; his cronies bedeck his name with legends, most of which center around his prowess in pub and boudoir. They say that he is descended from gypsies and hint that he has lived a wild, free, gypsy life. His friends point out that he has always been an intense family man (he has had nine children), that he succeeded as a painter through hard labor, and never ceases struggling to improve his art (frequently overworking his larger pictures). A less friendly tale has it that...
...onetime Vassar actress, Miss Madeira still appears in student and faculty plays (some recent roles: the sultan in Arabian Nights, Two-Gun Dick in a Wild West show). Last week the girls put on a birthday performance of Miss Madeira's favorite scenes from Shakespeare and watched her cut an enormous cake. Then the headmistress, in a new flowered print dress, made a speech in praise of longevity ("Growing old is a delightful experience") and teaching ("A journey in the country of the mind"). Was Miss Madeira planning to quit? Said she: "I'm going to retire when...