Word: distaff
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...Distaff: Button-popping with pride was pop-eyed Eddie Cantor, sonless father of five; a daughter had popped up with bells on in show business. Off the family payroll, onto Manhattan station WNEW's as a staff announcer was 21-year-old Marilyn, happily no spittin' image...
After that Sons o' Fun goes a bit daffy-down-hilly, though still heavily punctuated with gags and gunfire, "auction sales" and dancing in the aisles, black outs and whirring bats, actors chasing girls and women having babies. But the distaff side of the show makes itself felt with sultry, hip-shaking "Souse American Way" Carmen Miranda (The Streets of Paris}, brassy Ella Logan, peppery Dance-stars Rosario & Antonio, song-&-dance routines, puppeteers, jugglers, performers on a conch-like object called a sing-a-tina...
...sales fell and advertising appropriations became a trickle, the Pinkham brothers got an injunction restraining the distaff side from "interfering in the conduct of the business." But Lydia was not to be restrained. She pursued a petition for receivership, charged Arthur with mismanagement. Far richer than the Pinkhams, Lydia knew full well she could outbid them should the corporation be placed on the block...
...change on one of the theatre's sturdiest cliches: that nothing can untangle a snarled up family so effectively as a nervy outsider who plumps into its midst. Director Gregory La Cava, who tried it with a butler in My Man Godfrey (1937), this time does it in distaff with a working girl. When rich Mr. Borden (Walter Connolly) is stood up by his wife and family on his birthday, he wanders gloomily into Central Park, finds himself talking about the seals to pretty young Mary Grey (Ginger Rogers). Discovering by accident that Mary makes his enameled wife (Verree...
...availability, the rectitude of her impulses, her statesmanship and her popularity become increasingly apparent, I wonder how many others may have had the same thought: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt for our next President. It would be an experience to have the country ruled from the distaff side of the house, in terms of women's impulses. And Anna Eleanor Roosevelt looks like the logical solution to the problem confronting the liberal Democrats...