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Angelica Gibbs

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6 picks · 1941–1953

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Lilt.
profiles ·

PROFILE of my Gadd, national director of the Country Dance Society of America, a branch of the English Dance Society. During the past few years the …

WITH PALETTE KNIFE AND SKILLET
profiles ·

PROFILE of Mrs. Dione Wilson Lucas who runs the Cordo Bleu Cooking School and Restaurant at 117 E. 60th St. In the restaurant her specialty is preparing …

The Absolute Frontier
profiles ·

Angelica Gibbs’s Profile of the dancer and choreographer Martha Graham and the founding of her infamous Greenwich Village studio.

Choreographer
profiles ·

PROFILE of Agnes de Mille, dancer & choreographer. She has done the choreography for ballet numbers in several successful Bway shows, among them, …

FACE, FIGURE, FASCINATION, AND FITNESS
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about the DuBarry Success School ofwhich Miss Delafield is the director. Hiss D. is not a beautician She graduated from Doctor …

Pilgrimage
fiction ·

A mother takes her seventeen-year-old daughter to the home of her great-great-grandfather, now turned into a Museum by the Historical Society. The girl …