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Inspection in the Bath. In Paris, tiny (4 ft. 10 in.), trim Hattie was a reigning queen. At the ateliers of the top designers, her slightest show of interest made heady columns of news in Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. (In later years she learned to gush at the models that bored her, and to look bored at those she intended to promote.) Her suite at the Ritz was invariably a bedlam, with delivery boys, salesmen and hatboxes filling up the living room; Hattie herself sometimes held forth in the bathtub, shrewdly appraising the hats and accessories that were...
...some revelry in Miami, ripening (54) Bon Vivant Lucius ("Luscious") Beebe, now publisher of the Virginia City, Nev. Territorial Enterprise, rolled into Jacksonville in his elegant private railroad car (accouterments: three master bedrooms, a Turkish bath, a wine closet, a St. Bernard dog woofing to the name of Mr. T-Bone Towser). Local reporters converged on the track where Beebe was parked with his traveling companion, Charles Clegg. Q.: "How much did this rolling stock cost?" Beebe (Shuddering slightly): "That's vulgar!" Clegg (to newsmen): "I wouldn't ask how much your suit cost." Beebe: "But Governor Harriman...
Tristram von der Fingern Lachen sneered down his wrinkled nose at the pampered dandies around him. His aristocratic toilet-a bath in olive oil and a dousing with detergent-had been completed at home. Great Danes are just too big to do all of their primping in public. But smaller breeds in the Westminster Kennel Club show at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week turned the rank and echoing Garden cellar into a tonsorial riot. Handlers and owners worked over their charges like anxious mothers. Long hair was stripped and scissored, combed and brushed; paws were groomed...
...established stars. Neatly garbed in a business suit, he was a part of every ball game in Shibe Park. The A's might lose, but it was worth the price of admission to watch Mr. Mack wigwagging signals to his outfield with a rolled-up score card, a bath towel around his thin neck, his famous straw hat hanging near...
...begin with, Playwright Chayefsky's forte is not the idyls of the Kingsleys but the annals of doggedly ordinary folk. Given a handful of lower-middle or too-recently-upper-middle class people, and he will envelop them in a fine steam bath of banalities, in strong but clotted family feelings. Given a really sharp situation, such as Jerry's family met in a conclave over his possible marriage, and Chayefsky can orchestrate it-and Joshua Logan conduct it-with precise, phonographic humor. But the strong point of the playwright becomes the weak point of the play...