Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about ten inmutes in the second act, a fine musical version of Juno and the Paycock is currently on view at the Shubert. These ten minutes show a backyard party, conducted to the tune of a cheerfully cheesy waltz, suddenly interrupted by the entrance of a woman on the way to the funeral of her son, who had been killed fighting for the Irish Republic. Most of the party, suddenly chastened, troop out as mourners, and the man who had been forced to inform on the dead soldier tries to relieve his feelings in a desperately gay dance...
Geronimom. In Mescalero, N. Mex., Virginia Klinekole became the first woman president of a tribal council of the Apaches...
...artist," and a bitter but affectionate Irish barmaid. To this latter Jimson tries to explain his art: "Look at that figure, Cokey. Feel it with your eyes. First see the lines, then the colors..." To which she replies, "All I know, Mr. Jimson, is that no self respecting woman would let herself be painted like that." There is also a soft but deceitful matron, to whom Jimson was once married, and a Lord and his wife whose wall Jimson must have to paint his great panorama of the rising of Lazarus. He finally gets dead drunk in their living room...
...subscribing. But I'm convinced now. I have found your February 2 issue just chock full of facts, and I was able to use them at least a dozen times today. For instance, I was in a conversational circle today that was revolving around Bernstein (Estrella Bernstein, our cleaning woman) and I just usually dropped the fact that Cecil B. DeMille was dead. You remember--your latest issue devoted nearly three-quarters of a page to his career as an "epic-maker." My, was I surprised, when Estrella told me he'd been dead since January 21--12 days...
...Pont Show of the Month (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.).* If the makeup man can make Siobhan McKenna look dowdy, nothing at this late date should get in the way of J. M. Barrie's What Every Woman Knows, a well-thumbed treatise on giving a career-climbing hubby a homely leg-up; with James Donald, Martita Hunt...