Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrast to Farmer Christopher, Massachusetts' MacDonald is running in a suburban Boston district-and he certainly has the proper credentials: he is a onetime Harvard football captain; he was Senator John Kennedy's college roommate; he has a lovely wife, former movie actress Phyllis Brooks, who ladles out pink, nonalcoholic punch with complete grace and aplomb...
...become the world's No. 1 fashion magazine. The credit goes largely to Edna Woolman Chase, who at 77 has spent 59 years on the magazine, most of them as Vogue's editorial boss and arbiter of good taste. Last week, with an assist from her actress-author daughter Ilka Chase (Past Imperfect), Editor Chase published her autobiography, Always in Vogue (Doubleday; 381 pp.). In it she spins a rich, half-century history of the world of high fashion that revolved around her magazine, in which one must "be always at the summit of everything that is elegant...
...audience is not merely stimulated, it is all but electrocuted. Even the huge CinemaScope screen seems hardly big enough to carry the mass scenes. And yet, through the pelt of colors and the whirl of action, Carmen herself holds the eye-like a match burning steadily in a tornado. Actress Dandridge employs to perfection the method of the coquette: by never giving more than she has to, she hints that she has more than she has given-and sometimes even more than she really has to give...
...although there is a passing attempt at showing how a white-blooded American Boy (Mathias once had anemia) can become a great athlete. The girl friend in the picture, as well as in real life, is now Mathias' wife Melba, who may have the makings of a genuine actress. Her husband will probably be remembered as a great athlete...
...theatrical friends) the great Caruso and a couple of Jacks: London and Barrymore. She traveled to Europe and Africa as the piano accompanist of a vaudeville singer, and soon she had cut her way through the upper crust of three continents. Included among the names she drops: Actress Elsie Jams' mother, a thrifty Ohio housewife intent on buying her way into British society ("John dear, fetch a 75? Corona for the noble lord"), Mrs. O.H.P. Belmont, arbiter of New York society ("Every woman should marry twice-the first time for money, the second time for love"), and Sir Lionel...