Word: millers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...RALPH I. MILLER Long Island...
...familiar tunes. Playwright Tennessee Williams (A Streetcar Named Desire) explores more horror south of the Mason-Dixon line in the story of a frigid, middle-aged writer's passion for a horsy Mexican girl, also contributes some frank blank verse titled Counsel about Paris whorehouses. Expatriate Novelist Henry Miller (Tropic of Cancer) writes his way around his subject (Rimbaud) and plunges defiantly into his own thrice-told life and hard times. Most engaging poet: William Carlos Williams, who keeps his verse free and his imagery fresh...
...Agent Miller, a lawyer himself, said that he had sat through Judy's Washington trial last spring, where she was convicted of espionage and sentenced to prison, and heard other FBI agents testify that they had no knowledge wire tapping was used. Was he not aware, Judge Ryan asked Miller sharply, that those FBI statements were evasions? Miller's answer: at the time, he had "no personal knowledge" of wire tapping in the case...
...heady night for the stage-struck-almost all of the 300-odd guests at the opening-night party at Manhattan's Hotel St. Regis. Some of them were towering eminences whose very names are magical incantations along Broadway: Noel Coward, Ethel Merman, Gilbert Miller, Lily Pons, Billy Rose. Mingling among the great and irradiated by their greatness were the humble and the hopeful-chorus girls and boys from the new show, stagehands and bit players. As Meyer Davis' orchestra blared forth the insistent rhythms of Irving Berlin's Show Business ("There's NO bus'ness...
...front of the footlights in Manhattan's Alvin Theater, bellowed Gershwin's I Got Rhythm in a voice like a fire siren, and blew the audience right out of its seats. Before her, a gawky torch singer named Fanny Brice and a twinkle-toed dancer named Marilyn Miller had enchanted a million-odd playgoers of the '20s. Last week, the new star that glittered over Broadway was novel enough and brilliant enough to make all of show business seem once again like a glamourous, robust legend...