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...seven years, six nights a week, she has done it without pay. She finds payment enough in "the chance to use every ounce of creative energy that I have." That energy bubbles through about 50 musical skits (written by Turnabout's Forman Brown); in some of them Elsa rivals Bea Lillie at her best...
Many of them concern shady ladies and double meanings. All are delivered in a scrape-fiddle soprano, with a prodigality of gesture and squirrel teeth. Perhaps Elsa's audiences like best the one about a wealthy, overstuffed New England heiress who builds a gazebo (latticed bower) in which to trap a mate. She coyly invites...
...actually born in the London suburb of Lewisham, beyond the sound of Bow Bells. Her parents, she remembers, were "a bit arty-went in for pacifism, vegetarianism, Socialism and all that." At ten, she met Raymond Duncan, who sent her to study dancing with his sister Isadora. At 16, Elsa organized a London theater company, which put on one-act plays by Chekhov and Pirandello...
...when it ends, the revue begins at the other. The audienca sits on slipcovered streetcar seats, reverses them between shows; front seats for the puppet show are back seats for the revue (a nearsighted person has to sit in the center, or decide which he would rather see well, Elsa or the puppets...
...Copyright, 1947 Elsa Lanchester...