Word: gwen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...primer for capital hostesses and published Party Diary: Planning Ahead and the "Fete" Accompli, a 100-page guidebook anthologizing social notes and comments from the city's experts. "To be a success in Washington, you need comfortable shoes," advises outdoorsy Interior Secretary Stewart Udall. Hostess Gwen Cafritz purrs modestly: "With my little dinners I like to feel I am helping to save Western civilization." And Teddy Roosevelt's daughter, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, had her motto for a lively party embroidered on a sofa pillow: "If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here...
SWEET CHARITY, a musical suggested by Fellini's Nights of Cabirici, chronicles the sexcapades of a Manhattan taxi dancer who's looking for a one-way ticket to the altar. Gwen Verdon leads a high-kicking troupe through Bob Fosse's choreographic wonderland...
SWEET CHARITY. In old-fashioned romances, the pure hero pursued the shy heroine until he won her. In this modern fable, the soiled heroine (Gwen Verdon) chases the effete hero until she loses him. Despite its melancholy theme, the musical is electric entertainment...
...austere diet that ruled out fatty foods and liquor if the customer was overweight. Fees at Maine Chance have always been high (currently, $750 to $800 a week), and the clientele has included Mrs. Clark Gable, Mrs. John Foster Dulles, Ava Gardner, Edna Ferber, Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss, Gwen Cafritz, Perle Mesta, Clare Boothe Luce, Mamie Eisenhower, and Bea Lillie (who came not to reduce, but to put on weight...
SWEET CHARITY is all sincerity, one of those few and foolish women who don't know that honesty may be the worst policy. In an inventively staged musical, Gwen Verdon is a dance-hall doxy who is too direct to be devious, then wonders why she can't find the best bait to hook...