Word: biz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there are some funny lines. There is plenty of fast action, too. And there is Elke Sommer, a blizzard blonde who is just possibly the most important German export since the frankfurter. In Hollywood they call her Elke Seltzer, and she may put a fresh fizz in the neighborhood biz...
With relatives in Massachusetts, she has long had a tropism for the U.S. and has always wanted to live here. Now she probably will, since a new show-biz circuit is open to her. She has a twinkle of accomplishment in her eye when she remembers that during her first go at the Palladium "my name, it was down amongst the wines and spirits-the way it is here at the moment...
Last week the main attraction was just a singer, without props, and reasonably dressed. But the place was full. Mandy Rice-Davies of London was making her show biz debut...
Papa Charlie, 74, knows all about pretty young girls and those show-biz types. So it took a heap of persuading before he would allow his eldest daughter (among ten children), Geraldine Chaplin, 19, to set her toe in that direction. But Charlie finally let her enter London's Royal Ballet School in 1961. No sooner was she there than a picture of her in a decollete dress appeared, and Charlie blew his bowler. But daughters have a way of getting around fathers, and Geraldine stayed. This week she gets her biggest role: a four-minute solo...
...Like Show Business, meaning to indicate that she's damned glad that a girl named Ethel Zimmerman of the Astoria section of Queens once dropped the Zim, quit her job as a secretary to the president of the B. K. Vacuum Booster-Brake Co., and went into show biz. Standing ovations indicate that other people...