Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Importance of Being Earnest (by Oscar Wilde; produced by the Theatre Guild & John C. Wilson in association with H. M. Tennent, Ltd.) brings John Gielgud back to Broadway for the first time since his Hamlet in 1936. In the interim, the 42-year-old Englishman has played Hamlet at Elsinore, offered British playgoers a cavalcade of the classics, given London a repertory company to rival the Old Vic. For his present visit, Gielgud apparently questioned the importance of being earnest: he would frivol first in Wilde's classic farce, later in Congreve's Restoration comedy, Love for Love...
While it was at it, the committee also approved W. W. Waymack, Lewis L. Strauss, Dr. Robert Bacher and Sumner T. Pike as commission members, and Carroll Wilson as general manager...
...Bettina Wilson, fashion editor of Vogue, held with progress. When she swirled into London's glacially snooty "400" club (evening dress required) wearing a breathlessly new, just-above-the-ankles Paris gown, she was politely given the gate and a little lecture. "One swallow does not make a spring," Proprietor George Rossi told her primly. "When we see more women wearing evening dresses above the ankles, we will revise our standards." Mrs. Wilson went quietly...
...Carrol L. Wilson...
ALVIN C. EURICH, Stanford University ELMO C. WILSON, University of Minnesota...