Word: edith
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Funnyman Jack Paar appraised Songstress Betty Clooney (sister of Rosemary) with a businesslike eye last week and regretfully decided to drop her from his CBS-TV Morning Show. In her place he hired blonde Edith Adams, probably no better at singing than Betty. Why did he do it? Explained Paar: "We're on the air 15 hours a week, mostly without script, so everyone has to double in brass. Edith Adams can do any dialect, sing in Italian, German and French, and mimic personalities from Louis Armstrong to Marilyn Monroe. What's more, she's full...
...quietly intent group of people who care about poetry and theatre has come again to the surface of the not so esoteric world. Poets' Theatre brought Dame Edith Sitwell and Sir Osbert Sitwell to read their own work Sunday in Sanders Theater. The names have made headlines and aroused general interest, but for the five-year-old Poets' Theatre they are a small part of a movement that began weakly in 1950 and did not stay that way long...
...mention a town in Illinois. The U.S. is also dotted with Alices (3) Floras (6), Hildas (2), Iones (7) Marthas (3), and Stellas (6), plus Edith, Texas, Gladys, Va., Peggy, Texas, Rosa, La., Ursa, Ill., Wilma, Fla. and Zelda...
...Poets' Theatre will present Dame Edith Sitwell and Sir Osbert Sitwell reading their own poetry, Sunday at 8:30 p.m. in Sanders Theater. This is the Sitwells' first appearance in Cambridge...
...issue. Nevertheless, Miss Organ's commentaries, which deal with the written play rather than with the recent performance, are equally clear and to the point. In line with a policy of printing essays of current critical interest, the editors hope in the next issue to include an article on Edith Sitwell's phonetic theories...