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With no apology from the state of Illinois for having kept him in prison, Teddy went home with his stepmother and four sisters and sundry other relatives to the Marcinkiewicz house back of the stockyards. To celebrate, the Marcinkiewiczes had a bottle of whisky with ginger-ale and strawberry soda, but after 17 years on the wagon, Teddy abstained. "I still feel bitter," he said, "but I got to dissipate it. It isn't any good that way." In a tawdry North LaSalle Street walkup, Vera Walush thumbed through a deck of cards and observed: "I got nothin...
Playing on the same bill at the Metropolitan is the Preston Sturges comedy, "The Lady Eve." This film, also an old-timer, is a sophisticated piece about a confidence woman and the heir to the fortunes of Pike's Pale, "The Ale that Won for Yale." The dialogue abounds in double entendres of the highest order. At the same time, "The Lady Eve" has its share of slapstick, too. Henry Fonda, as the slow-witted heir, takes no less than nine pratfalls in the course of the movie...
...fragrance, bewitching songs. In Viola it has a charming heroine; in Malvolio, "sick of self-love," a monumental pompous ass. To him, as a huffing spoilsport, is addressed one of Shakespeare's crispest queries: "Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?" To him, by a frisking clown, is tossed some of Shakespeare's tersest wisdom: "There is no darkness but ignorance." And nowhere more than in Twelfth Night can a lovely moment suddenly leap out of the crudest horseplay...
...wonderful time. She sat entranced at Maxwell Anderson's Anne of the Thousand Days, went backstage at Ken Murray's Blackouts, listened to jazz at Bop City, danced the Charleston at a teen-age party, sipped a horse's neck (ginger ale and lemon peel) at the Stork Club, took a moonlight ride through Central Park in a convertible with the top down, and burned her tongue on a nightcap of hot chocolate at Rumpelmayer's. It was the kind of Manhattan merry-go-round that teen-agers dream about for their first visit...
Margaret Truman, who even at champagne parties prefers ginger ale or fruit juice, got her reward: a paid-up life membership in the W.C.T.U...