Word: gwen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fusty Washington grandes dames were inclined to sneer at Mrs. Cafritz' ambitions-but then, they had never accepted Perle Mesta either, and Perle Mesta did all right without them (TIME, March 14). Budapest-born Gwen Cafritz, as a matter of fact, had never even quite made the grade with the hostess whose evening slippers she hopes to fill. Gwen was never invited to Perle's parties, although Perle received several invitations from Gwen. Washington gossips like to say that when Perle took a house not far from the Cafritzes, Gwen promptly phoned her, said: "Now that...
...Gwen now has her own hatpin drawn for Mrs. Mesta. Says she: "Why, Perle Mesta came to Washington with a telephone book and a cookbook ... I was in Washington when Mrs. Mesta came and I was here when she left ... I just don't really think she matters...
...roughshod over the entire family is another son, Curt, a hard-bodied, dead-shot, ambitious, bully who loves hunting and the kill. On the morning the story opens, he is consumed by two desires: to track down the destructive mountain lion at large among the Bridges cattle; to seduce Gwen, the fiancee of brother Harold...
White Monday. But by Monday, all is well. Yvonne has had an affair with a floozy named Gwen and has thereby lost her anti-botanical prejudices. Marcia has gone back to the call-house where she belongs. Paul is in a hospital, sadder and wiser. And Character Wylie's cancer turns out to be just a "rare lymphatic growth...
Where's Charley? (book by George Abbott; music & lyrics by Frank Loesser; produced by Cy Feuer & Ernest H. Martin in association with Gwen Rickard) sets to music that old piece of nonsense with nine lives, Charley's Aunt. The result is not happy, less because the 55-year-old farce is dead than because the new procedure is deadening...