Word: edith
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Toast of the Town (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS). Ed Sullivan's variety show, with Edith Piaf, Helen Hayes, Pat O'Brien...
Tales of Tomorrow (Fri. 9:30 p.m., ABC). The Cocoon, with Jackie Cooper, Edith Fellows...
...Drapers moved to London, where Victorianism was deeply buried under the lush Edwardian bloom. Muriel set about creating a salon to rival Mabel Dodge's villa in Florence. To the Draper home at 19A Edith Grove came such notables as Painter John Singer Sargent, Writers Norman Douglas, Gertrude Stein and Henry James. The great preoccupation at 19A Edith Grove was music, some of it provided by husband Paul, more of it by Cellist Pablo Casals. Pianist Artur Rubinstein or Singer Feodor Chaliapin. Beginning late in the evening, the music often lasted till morning, when everyone would adjourn...
...next few years, Muriel's income was small and irregular. (She later claimed she lost about $35 on every decorating job she did.) But in a succession of shabby East Side New York apartments, generally furnished with a few gilt chairs and remnants of the splendors of 19A Edith Grove, she once again became a famous hostess. By 1929, when she published Music at Midnight, a lively memoir of her European triumphs, Muriel's parties were a focus for visiting artistic lions and earnest contributors to the little magazines. Muriel helped to keep excitement alive by outrageous remarks...
Westinghouse Summer Theater (Mon. 10 p.m.. CBS). Edith Fellows and Hamish Menzies in The Good Companions...