Word: pennington
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enough of everything to make it diverting. Oscar Shaw & Harriette Lake sing a silly song ("Lease in My Heart") so well that it will probably become a minor hit. (Two nights after the play opened "As Time Goes By" was a major hit in Manhattan nightclubs.) Flexible little Ann Pennington dances as well as ever; the Albertina Rasch Girls give one good number, one poor one (pseudo-bolero). Funniest number: Thomas Harty in a crazy, drunken dance...
Dancer Ann Pennington started suit for $100.000 against Lever Bros. Co. ("Lux" soap) and J. Walter Thompson Co. (advertising) for exploiting her age in an advertisement, thus: "I really am 39 years old. I never mind telling my age. As long as a woman doesn't look old, I don't see why birthdays should worry her. . . ." In Who's Who in the Theatre, dimple-kneed Dancer Pennington states that she was born...
...Junction on the narrow gauge railroad that runs to the coast. Then he fled. Yelling "Viva Sandino," the bandits fell savagely upon Logtown. Under a breadfruit tree they killed John Phelps, timber inspector for Standard Fruit's logging interests. They cut his body to bits. They threw Joseph Luther Pennington, another Standard Fruit Lumberman, into a river, peppered him to death with shots. Back in the logging camp they woke up Ripley Davis, planter, to murder him in cold blood, cut off his head and stick it on a fence post. Then they sacked the commissary...
...Alice, 1910 debutante; divorced wife of Architect Pleasants Pennington who gardens; onetime president of the New York Junior League; famed amateur ski-jumper (last year's winner of the Swiss Gold Ski Prize for Women...
...Yorkers. This show has a plethora of talent. There is Ann Pennington, Ted Waring & Pennsylvanians, Charles King, Marie Cahill, Richard Carle, Clayton, Jackson & Durante and blonde Frances Williams-not to be confused with blonde Hope Williams, who is also in the cast. The songs and lyrics were written by Yaleman Cole Porter, the scenery de-signed by Yaleman Peter Arno. Unfortunately, there are so many stars in the show that most of them do not appear as often as the audience might wish. Dancer Ann Pennington has only two small numbers. Hope Williams, appearing for the first time in musicomedy...