Word: lavishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Singapore), larger and more elegant homes, wild and lavish partying. They win & lose tens of thousands of dollars at mah-jongg and soo-sek (a game like rummy). Aw Boon Haw, the fabulous "Tiger Balm King," has added a nightmarish swimming pool to his huge Singapore residence; on the bottom of the pool are outsize hand-painted statues of mermaids, Oriental-style...
...costumes were designed by Irene Sharaff and the sets by Jo Mielziner. The costumes are lavish and imaginative; the sets are lavish. Mr. Mielziner's forte is not musical comedy, or even "musical play." "The King and I" is a large production, John Van Druten's direction is smooth, and the performances are all good. The trouble is that Rodgers and Hammerstein seem a little too reluctant to entertain their public. That is a fundamental mistake in show business. Perhaps the future will bring a change...
...lower level, September Affair has been turned out with as much skill as Brief Encounter. The plot meshes smoothly, the dialogue is suavely written and spoken, the score puts Kurt Weill's lovely September Song to good sentimental use, and a soft haze of glamor rises from lavish interiors and antiseptically romantic Italian vistas. The effect is as shimmeringly pretty as a soap bubble, and just as hollow...
Unless these scores are the result of lavish judging, Dillingham has a good chance of winning the league championship. Still in the early stages of an extremely promising career, he is already consistently getting better scores than most divers expect for their best day in a full three years...