Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...council, if ever a crime were committed on the island, the jurisdiction of the Devon police might "be called into question. It would therefore be desirable to tidy up this point." This sort of tidying up is just what the Lundyites abhor; it was even worse than that dark episode back...
Just before curtain time, a member of the audience took the stage. He wore a dark blazer, his goatee was white as a light bulb, his hearing aid seemed to be made of sterling silver. The invited audience-a collector's treasure of florists, bellhops, desk clerks, Schrafft's waitresses, Western Union girls and airline hostesses fell politely silent. Frederick Alden ("Perky") Warren, the man onstage, was their host. He had bought every seat in off-Broadway's Sheridan Square Playhouse to take them to the long-running (seven months) revival of Jerome Kern's Leave...
...drinks to cast and audience that the entire second act played as if the hall were built around an imperial quart. Afterward, Perky offered a farewell round of cheer, announced that he had seen the production for the last time and was content. But when the house lights went dark the following night, there -glistening in the ninth row center-was a familiar white goatee...
...next morning, Herald Reporter Buchanan was through, and preparing to go back to Miami. But he had one more mission to perform: "Young had asked me to get him a bandage for a swollen ankle, and a straw hat and dark glasses. I was willing to get the bandage-I'd do that for anybody-but nothing else, since I didn't want to get involved...
Married. Teresa Wright, 40, actress of stage (The Dark at the Top of the Stairs), screen (The Best Years of Our Lives) and TV (The Miracle Worker); and Robert Anderson, 42, playwright (Tea and Sympathy; Silent Night, Lonely Night); both for the second time; in Los Angeles...