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...crazy quilt of American folk tunes, gospel hymns, marches and sentimental ballads that evoke pungent memories of an earlier time. Stein's libretto is her customary trenchant blend of logic with nonsense, historical characters like Lillian Russell (sung by Karen Beck) with imaginary figures like the mobile angel (Ashley Putnam). Snippets of political speeches are intercut with Stein's excursions into absurdities. "I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking," Susan B. accuses. "Daniel Webster needs an artichoke," reports the angel, scooting by on her skates...
...greatest thing when a 36-year-old woman can put on the tightest jeans, the skimpiest shirt, play with a gun and call it work." So says Actress Elizabeth Ashley, whose work these days is a new comedy by Samuel Taylor titled Legend. In it she plays what she describes as an "outlawette" in a band of 17 Old West bad guys. Whatever the fate of the show when it opens on Broadway next month, Ashley's publicity poster seems a surefire hit. "A lady in those days couldn't go out and purchase outlawette gear," Liz says...
...everything from furs to sheets, took in $12 million in 1975. "Some people take their cue from Jackie O," he remarks, without naming Rival Halston. "I am more interested in the young American woman, and I watch her." But he does not lack for celebrated clients. Among them: Elizabeth Ashley, Mrs. William Buckley, Faye Dunaway, Alexis Smith, Mica Ertegun and Ethel Kennedy...
Well flow it did, as Wellesley guards Sharmon Brown (14 points) and Joan Ashley penetrated the Crimson defense with ease and forwards Lisa Griffen and Mary Young combined for 33 points, with Young alone hauling in 24 rebounds...
...Characters are like boarders," observed Actress Elizabeth Ashley, 36. "Some stay an hour; some stay weeks. I like the second way of acting. You transcend to the character, and she takes you through her journey. What you seek is to be possessed." Earlier this year Ashley was totally possessed by the role of Maggie during her highly acclaimed New York performance in Cat On a Hot Tin Roof. Then cast as Sabina in Thornton Wilder's 1942 comedy The Skin of Our Teeth, she showed herself to be equally consumed during the show's 2½-month tour...