Word: lunts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...leftist PM applauded solemnly. Manhattan newsstands sold out early on publication day. Showman Lee Shubert tried to get the dramatic rights. In Princeton, N.J., the mayor asked all citizens to read the piece. Knopf planned to publish it as a book. A radio chain wanted Paul Robeson, Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, and Katharine Cornell to take turns reading the 53-page article on the air. Only one dissenting note was heard: a reader in Brooklyn sent back his copy, saying he had read enough about the atom bomb. He was dismissed as crotchety...
While the Sun Shines is still running in London after more than 1,000 performances; Love in Idleness, renamed O Mistress Mine and starring Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne, is now a Broadway sellout...
...Mistress Mine. Lunt & Fontanne, still their incomparably cavorting selves as a British Cabinet Minister and a widow living in gay, sumptuous sin (TIME...
Discriminating geisha girls came near to swooning over him. Austere drama critics agreed that no Kabuki actor had mastered his art more perfectly. A great lover, onstage and off, lithe, handsome, 64-year-old Nizaemon Kataoka was Japan's Van Johnson, Alfred Lunt and John Barrymore rolled into...
...with its benefit. The Service, dedicated to saving adolescents from waywardness and to caring for unwed mothers, had contracted for a benefit performance of a current Broadway hit. No one had read the script, none knew that the play dealt lightheartedly with adultery. The play: "O Mistress Mine (Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne). Said a Youth Consultant: "The story isn't exactly what we might have chosen, but it's so beautifully done...