Word: actressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Broken legs are no laughing matter for ladies in their 70s, and Dame Margaret Rutherford, 75, hasn't chortled once. The grand old actress fractured a thigh when she tripped on a rug in her hotel room in Rome, and had to be flown to London for an emergency operation. Dame Margaret is mad as a wasp about the whole thing, said Husband Stringer Davis. "She had been swimming every day near Rome, and is furious that the fall has put an end to that for the time being...
...make it financially stable, the Auditorium was contained within a 17-story combination office building and hotel. But by the 1920s, revenue" from both hotel and Auditorium began falling off. When Utility Magnate Samuel Insull decided to build a new opera house as a showcase for his actress wife and persuaded the Chicago Civic Opera to relocate with him, the Auditorium's days seemed numbered. In 1941, the final curtain went down on a production of Hellzapoppin. During World War II, the empty hall was turned over to the U.S.O.; hot-dog stands and coffee bars were...
Born. To Eddie Fisher, 39, nightclub crooner, and Connie Stevens, 29, TV and movie actress: a daughter; in Burbank, Calif. They had not previously announced that they were married and, although Eddie now said they were, nobody could care less...
...exchanged news. A girl, just back from Athens, cried as she recounted what happened at the ancient theater below the Acropolis. A young actress, Greece's leading interpreter of classical tragedy, was bowing to the audience, when a government minister stepped up to the stage to congratulate her. She ignored him and kept bowing to the wildly cheering crowd, until he turned around and left...
Married. Rosemary Harris, 40, British actress whose equal knack for Shakespeare, Shaw and Sheridan blossomed in New York's APA repertory company under the direction of Ellis Rabb, her first husband (her ties with APA and Rabb both ended in divorce last spring); and John Ehle, 41, native North Carolina author (The Free Man); in Penland...