Word: rainbow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shimmer & Impulse. As a rainbow, shimmering with a new change of clothes at every appearance, coruscating with glittering jewels, shapely, brown-eyed Eva was unbeatable. Spaniards, high & low, took to her with open arms. Up & down the nation for two weeks and four days (TIME, June 23) they feted her, showered her with gifts and, as a grand climax, pinned upon her well-rounded bosom the Grand Cross of Isabella la Católica. Eva loved it. The promise of Franco's bauble had spurred her trip. The other reasons for the extravaganza were not so clear...
...airport, President Perón had rushed his pet ghostwriter aboard her plane, just in case. But one never could tell about Eva. To the women of Spain, on the first leg of her journey, she said disarmingly: "I did not come for an Axis, but only as a rainbow between our two countries...
...cool reviews, and from now on one Broadway theater after another will be going dark. But these shows and standbys are almost sure to span the summer: Oklahoma!, Voice of the Turtle, Harvey, State of the Union, Born Yesterday, Annie Get Your Gun, Call Me Mister, Finian's Rainbow, Brigadoon, All My Sons, Happy Birthday, John Loves Mary, Sweethearts, Burlesque-and Life with Father, which next week will beat Tobacco Road's record (3,182 performances)for the longest run in Broadway history...
...Navy captain, but she had boosted his rank to help "open Washington doors"; he had been a Rough Rider with Teddy Roosevelt and was bitten by a cobra while hunting with Roosevelt in Africa; he had been called ashore by General Pershing in France, where he joined the Rainbow Division...
Musicals were few but they were particularly adventurous and fresh. Finian's Rainbow and Brigadoon snubbed formulas while successfully serenading fantasy; and even such a flop as Beggars' Holiday had the courage of its confusions. Meanwhile, two generally effective musical plays, Street Scene and Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Medium, started battering down the partition between theater and opera...