Word: corio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asking you who she is, net how she is," protested 'Theodore P. Allegretti '47, president of the Harvard Dramatic Club, when initial returns to the Club's "Miss Juno" contest gave the shapely maid the worst of it in comparisons with the Black Dahlia, Ann Corio, and Mrs. Pruneface...
Early program directors fishing about for something to the taste of their audiences soon found that sex, as always, did the trick. The first experiment was with Ann Corio, who cooed nice things about Harvard men and not so nice ones about Yale, into Shepard Hall microphones. So successful was the program that the next week found a Radcliffe freshman, a Wellesley sophomore, a vacationing Vassar junior, and a Boston debutante comparing notes on Harvard men for the benefit of listeners...
...Lahr's sometime but overloving wife, Eileon Heckart handles a large and difficult part well. Singing, dancing and generally playing small-time vaudevillian, she does an intelligent and very able portrayal. Robert Weil, a barrel-bodied dwarf who did his all to hold up Ann Corio through three acts of "Sailor Beware," this season, turns up here as a two-bit Burlesque gagster, and is an extremely funny little man. William Mendrek and Ruth Homond, whose names appear on these pages from time to time, do their usually adequate job. And for purely local interest-besides some trim chorines...
...names on the billboards were big and bright. A few of them: Dame May Whitty, Gloria Swanson, Gregory Peck, Thornton Wilder, Diana Barrymore, Helen Hayes & daughter Mary MacArthur, Gladys Cooper & daughter Sally Pearson, Edward Everett Horton, Gertrude Lawrence, Ann Corio, Jane Cowl, Lilian Harvey, Anton Dolin, Ginger Rogers, Dick Powell, Ruth Chatterton, Mady Christians, Faye Emerson Roosevelt, Victor Moore, Maurice Evans...
...Corio, veteran stripteuse, didn't believe it. "Renie shows that she doesn't know what she's talking about," snapped the uncharitable ecdysiast, "because 90% of the girls in Hollywood have nothing to expose in the first place...