Word: ecdysiasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...puzzler if the answer was not blazoned on the marquee. The answer: Ethel Merman. They all love Ethel, but the love is sorely tested in her latest role as the most monstrous stage mother ever seen on stage. Gypsy is inspired by Gypsy Rose Lee's autobiography, but Ecdysiast Lee remembered Mama with the same refined, opera-length-glove finesse that she brought to her stripping. Mama played by Merman is forbiddingly, tiresomely brassy, a kind of Orpheum-circuit Medea. At curtain's rise, Mama Rose has already devoured three unshowbusinesslike husbands and is panting to staff...
...possible for a nightclub to lose money with famed Ecdysiast Sherry Britton stripping to bugle beads and pearls, and an undraped cutie splashing in a giant champagne glass? Answer: Yes, the way the nightclub business is going these nights. As the trade weekly Variety would put it: To get off the nut (i.e., earn back the investment) in a bigtime nitery operation now, a boniface has to do boffo biz seven nights a week, and even then he may wind up flivving. Reason: the top-liners are slugging the spots for too much coin. The latest of the show bizites...
...Bernice Nicholls, wife of a polo-playing industrialist, swore that Broady invited her to his office once to hear a tapped recording of an alleged telephone conversation between her husband and ex-Ecdysiast Ann Corio. When Broady asked her if she would like him to make some more rec ords, she declined because, she said, "I was aware of the situation." (The Nicholls were subsequently reconciled, without Broady's dubious assistance.) ¶ Pepsi-Cola President Alfred N. Steele said that his telephone had been tapped without his permission or knowledge in 1954, when he was having "matrimonial trouble." Steele...
Political Coca-Cola. About the same time that the generals were returning from the war, Idella Ruth Blackadder, then 21 and an RKO starlet, came back from an overseas stint with a U.S.O. troupe and met Marx at a party the next day. Idella, who is Ecdysiast Lili St. Cyr's half sister, married Marx. When Marx took Idella, who is two inches taller and 28 years younger, to meet General Gruenther on a European trip, Gruenther greeted Idella with: "What on earth did you marry him for?" Declared Marx: "I'm the one with the brains." Although some acquaintances...
Prince Consort. In 1948, De Diego splashed onto the front pages by marrying Ecdysiast Gypsy Rose Lee, who declared: 'Julio and I can be happy together. I'm working on a play, Julio has his art, and we spend our evenings together." This bliss did not last, although the De Diegos are still legally married and remain good friends.* Says Julio: "I was not cut out to be prince consort. What is a man that he should have to follow his wife around?" Julio now lives alone in a grubby, two-room Manhattan studio, where he prominently displays...