Word: funning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...writing because he can't. George Kaufman isn't getting any younger. ... Philip Barry never wrote anything that would draw me into a theater. The best thing Maxwell Anderson ever wrote was Ingrid Bergman." Swore Play-Producer Harris: "I hope I never have to produce another. The fun is gone." He said that he was 90 (he is 47)-"as old as Shaw. But I feel older...
Arturo Toscanini had broken into his vacation to conduct the première himself. At rehearsal with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, he seemed to be having the time of his life. Don Gillis' new Symphony for Fun was the kind of thing the maestro could let himself go on. On the podium, he swayed, sang, all but strutted a cakewalk. Once the Toscanini temper flared up-when the xylophonist floundered over a particularly tricky passage. In the studio control room, Composer Gillis watched the struggling xylophonist, whispered to a companion: "Poor guy. Doesn't he realize that...
...Well, I have had my fun. But the end of my life is about here. So boys Please don't do as I have...
When Mrs. Vining talks about Akihito, a defensively maternal note creeps into her voice. Says she: "He's a perfectly normal boy, very free with the others and full of fun. He has a natural manner, except when photographed. Then he wears his picture-taking look, a rather bored expression. . . . He has a good mind . . . direct and honest. It would be easy for him to say he understands when he doesn't and he will not do that...
...Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer. Shirley Temple loves Gary Grant who loves Myrna Loy who thinks she loves Rudy Vallee, with fun & games for all (TIME...