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...Artists' Group of America picked the country's ten most beautiful women. Among them: Elizabeth Taylor ("Face and grace of an angel"), Ava Gardner ("Temptingly curved bosom and hip lines"), Esther Williams ("Flawlessly formed jaws and thighs"), Ginger Rogers ("Fine bold chin"), Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt ("Shapely ears"), and Mary Pickford ("Everybody's 'favorite aunt' type...
Fifth Ave. at 59th Street. The Carnaval Room features dinner and supper dance music by sundry gypsies and Lester Lanin. Drop down a couple of blocks to 152 E. 55th Street, if you prefer, and be amused by a half-dozen entertainers while you cup at the Blue Angel. Le Huban Bleu 4 E. 56th, features no less then ten nightclub artists to distract you during supper. Le Coq Rouge, just down the block from Le Ruban at 65 E. 56th, supplies Phil D'Arey's trio and Eddie Davis's orchestra. There is dancing here, very hard while...
Religion, according to old (84) Atheist William McCarthy, is a racket. When McCarthy, angel and sparkplug of a group called United Secularists of America, learned that his own state of New Jersey had a law on the books requiring public schools to read pupils five verses of the Old Testament each day, he whistled up his secularist cohorts to the attack. A suit against the state was duly filed by Mrs. Anna Klein, as mother of a student, and Donald Doremus, as a taxpayer, on the ground that the law was unconstitutional (TIME...
...anxious, she is taken in tow by a ravenous old contessa who supplies her with "beautiful" young men as escorts. Mrs. Stone, good American that she is, pays them as expected but politely declines their ultimate services. But when she meets Paolo, a gigolo with the face of an angel and the soul of a pig, she falls hard...
This wild burlesque of English literary life is the best thing in A Fearful Joy. Gary trots out a weird but wholly likable crew of eccentrics and fakes: the rich "angel" who is afraid of being taken in and afraid of being left out; the lazy sponger with an uncanny eye for the latest thing in letters who privately believes that modern writing is "so rotten that it may be good, in a rotten way"; the scraggly poet with "a thin virgin beard" who preaches that "the true decadent has no modesty...