Word: waltz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...musical version of Thornton Wilder's Our Town, with Frank Sinatra and Eva Marie Saint; Jerome Kern's The Cat and the Fiddle; Dearest Enemy, with a Rodgers and Hart score; a musical based on Heidi with Wally Cox and Jeannie Carson; Patrice Munsel in The Great Waltz; and Maurice Chevalier in a variety show. Straight drama also will get the 90-minute treatment from NBC. José Ferrer will put on putty for another re-creation of Cyrano de Bergerac. Eva La Gallienne will star again in Alice in Wonderland. Maurice Evans becomes...
...studying for the Methodist ministry at the University of Denver, only because he was learning to walk again after an attack of diphtheria had paralyzed him from the waist down. But when the Denver Post sponsored a "Quatre Arts" ball at which Ted and his teacher performed a decorous waltz, respectable folk-Methodist or not-were horrified. One of Ted's fraternity brothers quietly drew him aside for a brotherly dressing down. "Men," he said with finality, "don't dance...
...China she hopes to renew her acquaint ance with Communist Premier Chou Enlai, whom she encountered in Yenan nine years ago at a dance. Recalled Anna Louise: "He's a very able and controlled type of person, and perfection in a waltz...
...three members of the family and a painting by Sir Winston Churchill, presented to Harry Truman as a gift. The former President also sat down at Margaret's piano, wondering if it was in tune (it did not sound as if it was), and played the waltz he had taught her when she was first learning to play the piano. Then, as an encore, he played Paderewski's Minuet...
...Dorothy Stickney last Saturday as the wife of Curtis Honey, is delightfully Addamsian. Behind everything she says-even the tune she whistles-lurks the desire to eliminate her crochety old husband and enjoy a subsequent life of freedom and wealth. The tune, of course, is the Merry Widow Waltz...