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Miss Hart, who has just ended her engagement at the RKO Boston, said that she is in reality a simple country maid from Kansas City, and, like the fresh and wholesome Queenie, she plans to go back there at the end of her career in the big cities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MARGIE HART ON RKO CIRCUIT --- JUST SINGING | 7/30/1943 | See Source »

Romantic notes: Bob Sherwood still writing nasty notes to that chamber maid about misplacing his unmentionables. But there's nothing real between them, cause he really has a "one and only", in New York of all places. The Lima Bean girl at Cowie has promised Oliver Wilson a seamless nylon hairnet for his unruly locks. Because Mrs. Betey Brown says we shouldn't, and we're mad at her because she won't guest-write our column even once, we will say that Wally Notter's daughter looks too bee-eutiful for to be a boy, although...

Author: By M. J. Roth, | Title: STRAIGHT DOPE | 7/23/1943 | See Source »

...finest performances of Tristan und Isolde in recent years. The conductor was Sir Thomas Beecham, and the cast a group of top-flight singers, some from Manhattan's Metropolitan. Isolde spent her first act reclining on a shipboard divan, with the necessary business carried out by her maid Brangäne. The second-act love scene had perhaps the fittest staging in history: Tristan and Isolde sang on a couch. In the last act, Isolde was carried on stage by Tristan's old retainer Kurwenal and tenderly deposited beside her dying lover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera Made Easier | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

Julia Marlowe, 76, romantic stage heroine of 40-odd years ago (Sothern & Marlowe), was up & about after three weeks abed recovering from injuries suffered in a fall. Refusing to admit reporters to her Manhattan hotel suite, she sent word by her maid that she wanted to "have nothing to do with the outside world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 7, 1943 | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

...deadpanned and massaged the knuckles of one fist; his wife, full-fashioned, ex-Musicomedienne Hannah Williams, in a beige suit, tan corduroy coat, red gloves, red-heeled shoes and considerable eye shadow, fiddled with her sunglasses and turned various colors. A cook, an elevator boy, a fight manager, a maid took their turns on the witness stand, told stories of parties at redheaded Hannah's apartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 7, 1943 | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

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