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...mused Designer Norman Bel Geddes last week, when he was asked about his younger daughter's birth. "Barbs was done the year I did the Palais Royal, my first New York restaurant." Daughter Barbara never turned out to be as glittering a production as the Palais Royal (eventually remodeled into the lavish Latin Quarter). Nor has she learned to match her father's trick of the casually preoccupied phrase. Nonetheless, in her own quieter way, Barbara Bel Geddes was celebrating last week her undisputed rise to fame and glory as an authentic star in her own right...
...part failure. New York City's critics had watched her rise to stardom in seven Broadway plays, had seen her eclipsed by lesser stars in six Hollywood pictures. But in Playwright F. Hugh Herbert's fresh and frothy comedy, The Moon Is Blue (TIME, March 19), Barbara had returned to Broadway as that rare phenomenon-an ingenue...
...Hugh Herbert's The Moon is Blue graces the Henry Miller on 43rd with the presence of Barbara Bel Goddes, Barry Nelson, and Donald Cook, while Welcott Gibbs' Fire Island comedy, Season in the Sun, continues at the Cort on 48th. Eddie Dowling and Joan McCracken close after the weekend at the Booth in Angel in the Pawnshop...
Dick Button and Barbara Ann Scott will be featured performers at the Boston Skating Club's annual show, "Ice Chips," which opens Thursday, April...
Died. Sam A. (for Adolph) Lewisohn, 66, Manhattan millionaire, financier, esthete; of a heart attack; while on vacation in Santa Barbara, Calif. Along with money, he inherited from his father Adolph the family tradition of cultural philanthropy. In a big-city way, Lewisohn followed the small-town ideal of the civic-spirited citizen; helped run Manhattan's famed Lewisohn Stadium concerts; pioneered in prison reform, was the only businessman ever to head the American Prison Association; tried to smooth labor-management relations (Human Leadership in Industry) ; worked at art collecting and art criticism (Painters and Personality...