Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Critic. Lute in lap, she began with Elizabethan airs like Lord Willoughbie's Welcome Home and Can She Excuse, sending the notes out soft and sweet. Then she tripped across stage to a tiny 16th Century virginal, and tinkled out two more. Before the program was over, one-woman-show Suzanne had also performed on three types of recorders, conducted a group of psalter singers and an ensemble, danced a bit and sung two of her own compositions. Wrote the New York Times's Ross Parmenter: "About the only thing she did not do ... was play the offstage...
Blue-eyed Suzanne, a whirlwind of a woman at 41, finds time to teach a children's class at the Juilliard School of Music and another class for elementary-school teachers at City College. She keeps house for her husband Paul Smith, head of Columbia University's mathematics department (and recorder virtuoso in Suzanne's ensemble). And she raises her two sons. Says Suzanne: "It keeps me normal...
...romance between "Knucklehead Nellie" (Mary Martin), an appealing Navy nurse from Little Rock, Ark., and a middle-aged Pacific-island French planter (Ezio Pinza). The nurse loves the planter but almost loses him, first to her Southern prejudices when she finds he has lived openly with a native woman and sired two children, then to the hazards of war. There is a similar but sadder subplot in which Boy Meets Native Girl and breaks her heart. In calculated contrast to such solemn romancing are the rowdy antics and loutish amateur theatricals of assorted Seabees and Marines...
Adventure in Baltimore (RKO Radio), like a leisurely look into the family album, is good for some drowsy amusement and one or two chuckles. Set in the 1900s, it describes the misadventures of a rebellious young woman (Shirley Temple) who believes in women's rights-especially the right to vote and to paint the nude human figure. Expelled from school for her outlandishly radical notions, Shirley returns home to disgrace her kindly clergyman-father (Robert Young), outrage her boy friend (John Agar), and throw the whole neighborhood into an uproar...
...Stalin Prizes went to a 41-year-old Russian newspaper woman named Vera Fedorovna Panova for her first novel, a story of a Red army hospital train in World War II. Published in the U.S., The Train proves to be exceptional in recent Soviet fiction for sticking to its own tracks, with no side excursions into politics and only the rarest toots of the propaganda whistle...