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Weird is the word. The Smoky Mountain legend of Barbara Allen and her witch-boy lover in itself is strange and eerie. Made into a "legend with music" by Howard Richardson and William Berney, strikingly performed, and skillfully produced, the tale becomes an unusually dramatic theatrical experience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 5/16/1946 | See Source »

...This Barbara Allen herself is strictly down-to-earth, though. In fact, she probably ranks as the sexiest gal in them thar hills. And that's what makes trouble. For Barbara so out-sexes even the girl witches with whom the witch-boy used to spend his time, riding around in the moonlight on eagles, that he wants to become a human and marry her. Warned by the Conjur Man that being human isn't easy, and enticed by the wiles of the girl witches, he nonetheless insists on becoming a man "with a soul." "You'll be sorry, witch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 5/16/1946 | See Source »

Hook. In Chicago, Herbert Naiditch welcomed his pretty British bride Barbara. How it all started: she cracked his ankle with a golf shot, next day beaned him with another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 13, 1946 | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

Frederick E. Penn '47--Barbara Eydenberg...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jubilee Goers and Guests | 4/27/1946 | See Source »

Alfred K. Dolge '49--Barbara Lee Olson (Endicott...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jubilee Goers and Guests | 4/27/1946 | See Source »

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