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...Menace, and has now gone on to fame as Sally Bowles, the waif of waifs in the film Cabaret. I Am a Camera, the nonmusical version of Cabaret, starred Julie Harris who had already qualified in The Member of the Wedding as the quintessential American waif. Carol Burnett gawked and geeked her way onstage in Once Upon a Mattress and went on to become one of TV's clowning glories. Gwen Verdon was the gamine waif of both Redhead and Sweet Charity, and Audrey Hepburn was a winsome waifling as Gigi...
...time out to attend to details ordinarily left to stagehands-testing the door chimes on a set or making sure that a champagne-bucket prop is positioned correctly. Because of his painstaking approach, the show is known as something of a sweat for guests. Outside performers on the Carol Burnett or Glen Campbell shows can get away with a three-day commitment; Dean Martin's guests have been known not to see him until the day of the show. But Flip insists on a five-day schedule for his guests as well as for himself...
...Kangaw Barracks-Royal Navy sailors in the lead, followed by Royal Marines in desert khaki and pith helmets, Royal Highland Fusiliers in tartan caps, men of the Royal Air Force and the Royal Artillery. "It is quite an occasion-an historic occasion," said Air Chief Marshal Sir Brian Burnett, the last head of the British Far East Command...
...Last and the First is even sparer than most Compton-Burnett. At times the dialogue sounds eerily like Gertrude Stein's: "It is what it is and would be." All signs of movement are auditory. One knows a character has entered a room when he joins the conversation -an easy transition, since he has usually been eavesdropping outside. There is absolutely no small talk or incidental detail in Dame Ivy's novels. There are, however, plenty of conversational bromides: the author delighted in characterizing her villains by making them overly fond of banal phrases. "The yoke...
Because she concentrated so fiercely on the brutalizing effects of power and money, Ivy Compton-Burnett has often been accused of being pitiless and even amoral. She was as unsparing as Ibsen in visiting the sins of parents on their children, and there are few more starkly evil women in literature than the murderous Anna Donne in Elders and Betters...