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Jean Stapleton met Eleanor Roosevelt only once, in 1953, when the former First Lady paid a backstage visit to the Chicago cast of Come Back, Little Sheba. "Everyone was so awed that she had to make all the small talk," recalls TV's Edith Bunker. "And that smile. I could never forget it." Evidently, she not only remembered it but was able to reproduce it for a two-hour CBS special on Eleanor's first years as a U.N. delegate (1945-46). In fact, Londoners were stunned when they saw the actress's commanding figure step...
Organ Recital--Edith Ho, organist; Memorial Church...
SCTV Station Manager Edith Prickley, who favors rhinestone-studded glasses and a leopard-skin coat to match her rakish chapeau. has had several programs of her own - a cooking course, a talk show that was a literal conversation stopper and an outdoor safari documentary that never got much farther than the parking lot. None of them has done particularly well, perhaps because Mrs. Prickley has the anxious friendliness of a piece of misfired puffed wheat and a laugh like the lullaby...
...DIED. Edith Head, eightyish, Hollywood costume designer who once described her job as "a cross between camouflage and reconstruction" and who won a record eight Academy Awards (for The Heiress, All About Eve, Samson and Delilah, A Place in the Sun, Roman Holiday, Sabrina, The Facts of Life and The Sting); in Los Angeles. Her first job for a studio was draping garlands over elephants in a Cecil B. De-Mille circus film. She notched her first Oscar for dressing Olivia de Havilland as a spinster in The Heiress in 1949. Prim and priggish-looking in her bangs and tortoise...
Some English 70 veterans doubtless remember Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton's dark and dour New England novel whose poetry lies in the starkness of its prose and of the events that torture its three main characters. The same people might have looked askance at the posters that said Ethan Frome was going up at the Ex. How do you dramatize a book like that? "You do think of it as something to read, not see," allows producer Dorothea Hanson...