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...spoke of the emotional involvement an actress must experience--the kind that makes her "look at her hair-dresser and say, 'Why are you persecuting me?' "The only performer she knew who did not have to wind himself up to play a part was Frederic March, Miss Winters said. She recalled a scene in which March "was weeping and pinching my bottom at the same time...
From the day she arrived at Radcliffe, President Bunting has served as quite a model herself. "She's not much of a dresser," sniffed one trustee on first seeing her, but soon people were speaking of "infectious charm." To keep in touch with freshmen, she started teaching a seminar in genetics. When the porch light is on at 76 Brattle Street, said she, drop in. The girls do in droves. "A marvelous woman," was the verdict. "She's the kind every Radcliffe girl would like...
...entertainment is largely cerebral. Such sleaziness as Suzie Wong and such vulgar overproductions as Gypsy are balanced, surprisingly often, by a worthy and hopelessly unsalable show such as Menotti's opera, Maria Golovin. He can haggle with a star over $15, more or less, to be paid a dresser, yet he is often liberal with authors' advances. He is widely celebrated as Broadway's biggest s.o.b. since the heyday of Jed Harris, but he has the respect of many professionals from Josh Logan to Garson Kanin, and his steady, money-making backers think he is a major...
...special course at Georgetown University), learned golf and water skiing. She has cut her smoking down to five cigarettes a day in deference to his wishes, and like Jack, will drink a daiquiri or old-fashioned before dinner. Under his wife's urgent supervision, Jack became a fastidious dresser, even went to art galleries to inspect pictures with her (he likes seascapes). Dinner parties became a ragout of mutual interests, with conversations ranging from the humanities at Jackie's end of the table to politics at Jack's. "The men all do talk most of the time...
...Gable's mother died before he was a year old, and the shy, chubby, awkward, somewhat spoiled only child-who played a Teddy bear in a grade-school play-was raised on a mixture of hazard and earthy practicality. For three years he worked as a tool dresser in an Oklahoma oilfield, climbing 80-ft. derricks to grease the crown block and swinging 16-lb. sledge hammers...