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...shelf and dusting them off is developing into what seems to be a positive, and certainly must be a paying mania of the Messrs. Shubert, Last year it was "Rose Marie" and "Blossom Time"; this year it has already been "The Student Prince," and now it is "Rio Rita"-the latest to be ground out of the Shubert revival mill. Like warmed-over carrot pudding they are never so good as at the original scrving, but the old always come back for a nostalgic second and the young to see what their elders used to rave about. "Rio Rita" serves...

Author: By R. C. H., | Title: PLAYGOER | 10/25/1941 | See Source »

Hollywood studios spare no lacquer in slicking up new, glamorizable names for their young hopefuls (e.g., Margarita Cansino to Rita Hayworth, Melvyn Hesselberg to Melvyn Douglas, Frances Gumm to Judy Garland). Recently Cinecolumnist John Chapman reported a Hollywood moniker to end all Hollywood monikers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pislam Siv | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...about to die. During the search he falls in love with a girl (Evelyn Keyes) whose father has been wronged by a young, polo-playing millionaire. This persuades him to take the body of the millionaire, who has just been drowned in a bathtub by his wife (Rita Johnson) and his secretary (John Emery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 25, 1941 | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

Popular orchestra leader at House Dances Bartlett will feature blonde vocalist Rita Scott. Earlier in the year Bartlett played the musical score for the annual Pi Eta show...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brooks House Names Bartlett For Dance | 5/16/1941 | See Source »

Robert G. Nassau '42, of the Harvard Student Union, Paul Hoover 2G, of the Committee, Against Military Intervention, Miss Rita Vallish, Radcliffe '44, of the Radcliffe "News," were appointed to the Program Committee and empowered with the general direction of the strike...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PEACE GROUP PLANS STRIKE | 4/18/1941 | See Source »

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