Word: doorman
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...looks as if Theatre will be all smirk and no play. When the well of adultery runs dry, the authors rush with their buckets to the dripping fount of sentimental stage glamor: the star's dressing room on a great London first night, flowers, hubbub, reminiscing old doorman, tiff between actresses-and, in the midst of all this, the lover's dismissal and the husband's return...
...round; the pretty librarian reclines on a couch; one of the readers wears a small coffin as a shoe (he has one foot in the grave) ; another is gloomily reading Joyce's Ulysses for the third time. Nobody is at all surprised when a Negro, uniformed like a doorman and blowing a bugle, heralds the approach of Mr. Jim Dandy-a fat man with no visible means of support, who says nothing for quite a while, but acts regal...
Gypsy wrote every word of The G-String Murders herself, between shows. Nobody else could have. Two bitchy strip queens are murdered with their own G-strings in a Manhattan burlesque house. The cast: chorines, strippers, comedians, gangsters, impresarios, doorman. The scenes include a drunken backstage brawl to celebrate the installation of new blue plumbing in the ladies' room, and a touching moment in jail, after a raid, when one strippeuse douses her bra in the cold sink water as the only available substitute for the ice with which she usually firms her breasts...
...dissolve process to meld blue-eyed Mr. Baggot into horrendous Mr. Hyde. Critics, as well as small boys, were scared. Actor Baggot survived his ordeal to make more than 300 pictures, eventually became a director. When last seen on celluloid, he was playing the part of a perfectly normal doorman this year in Come Live With...
...year-old man had been ousted from home by his family and jailed for stealing, was living meagrely on Federal relief, his pride had been wounded by a hospital doorman who refused to let him use the visitors' entrance. On airing his tribulations his stomach acid first dropped, then rose, reaching a peak when his anger was manifestly greatest. Bloody shreds and bile were also found in the specimens...