Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...writers, secretaries, itinerant fellow-players, men on leave. Soon she and Oliver may commence a new weekly radio show which will enlist other American showfolk justly beloved of Britons : Frances Day, top-money musicomedy star who graduated from the Texas Guinan night club chorus; Ziegfeld Follies alumna Dorothy Dickson, Actress Claire (Gay Divorce) Luce, Greta Nissen, gargantuan Xylophonist Teddy Brown, and freckle-spattered dramatic Comedienne Constance Cummings...
...with the help of three dress rehearsals that lasted most of three nights, the show was in pretty good shape for its' swish Washington premiere. The first-night audience, which included Eleanor Roosevelt, the Maxim Litvinoffs, the Harry Hopkinses, was enthusiastic if occasionally irreverent : when Actress Cornell tossed herself too quiveringly into her lover's arms, the house roared with laughter. Afterwards the bigwigs trooped backstage. Amid his congratulations, Harry Hopkins voiced a complaint: "No man would say good-by to the woman he loves wearing heavy leather gauntlets...
...notch performers have accepted not only smaller roles than usual, but smaller salaries. (Yet the show, costing $12,000 a week, is Producer Cornell's costliest production.) The whole company have also displayed their very best company manners. Everyone is "thrilled" to be playing with everyone else. When Actress Gordon had a sore throat, Actress Anderson tore to the drugstore to get her a favorite remedy. For the Broadway run, the three great ladies are virtually pushing one another into the No. 1 dressing room. In Washington, no problem existed: since the dressing rooms there are lettered instead...
...longest role in the play belongs, not to one of the three, but to snub-nosed English Ingénue Musgrove. * Actress Anderson's pet story concerns the shy Garbo's inspecting Miss Anderson's California home with a view to renting it. Garbo inquired how often the gardener came, was told "every day." Said Garbo, exiting: "Too often...
Died. Henrietta Remsen Meserole Manney Westley (professionally: Helen Westley), 63, veteran character actress; in Middlebush, NJ. Dour-faced, fire-eyed and testy-tongued, she specialized in playing disreputable old wrecks. She was one of the founders of the Theatre Guild. She was the fifth famed character actress to die in recent weeks (the others: Dame Marie Tempest, May Robson, Edna May Oliver, Laura Hope Crews...