Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...program known as Luncheon at the Waldorf. Broadcast from the Empire Room of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, the show is aimed at matrons with better-than-average bankrolls, is as sedulously shallow as a column by Lucius Beebe. Clearly responsible for the tenor of the Luncheon is Actress Ilka Chase, who not only serves as aerial hostess but writes the scripts as well. Last week before a free-feeding audience of 50, Luncheon at the Waldorf was fluttering smartly through its third 13-week period on the air under the sponsorship of Camel Cigarettes...
...cigaret butts they would leave." She now lives in a small house with a pint-sized swimming pool in Beverly Hills, employs a man & wife to run her household, drives her Buick convertible coupe herself, dresses sloppily, avoids nightclubs. Frank Lloyd observed: "I haven't had an actress like Martha Scott since Pauline Frederick. They are damn few and far between...
Married. Vivien Leigh, 26, cinemactress; and Laurence Olivier, 33, cinemactor; in Santa Barbara, Calif.; four days after British Barrister Herbert Leigh Hoi-man's divorce from Miss Leigh became final, 25 days after British Actress Jill Esmond obtained an absolute decree from Olivier...
Langtry, Tex., named by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean after the late, famed British Actress Lily Langtry, cabled an invitation to the Jersey Lily's daughter (Lady Ian Malcolm) and granddaughter (Lady Mary Bartlett) in bombed London: "Langtry's 200 citizens would be godparents to you. . . . He [Bean] would have wanted us to offer refuge to the daughter of the actress he so admired...
Scripteuse for Let's Pretend is blonde, broad-beamed Nila Mack, who used to be an actress, now lives with a Persian cat in Manhattan. Last week Storyteller Mack celebrated her tenth anniversary in radio by directing The Five Hundred Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins for the Columbia Workshop. It was the 1,304th show that she had had a hand in. First, in 1930, was Sinbad the Sailor, with a cast of grownups and children. Dissatisfied with the adults in Sinbad, Miss Mack decided to round up a group of untrained small fry, to teach by her own methods...