Word: hostessing
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...Annie Get Your Gun; Van Johnson is set to play The Pied Piper of Hamelin; and Mickey Rooney brings his cultivated ham to Pinocchio. Maurice Evans will produce and star in Twelfth Night and Dial M for Murder for Hallmark Hall of Fame. Ex-Cinemoppet Shirley Temple acts as hostess and sometimes star of a new fairy-tale series, and NBC Opera Company will do Rigoletto, Die Meistersinger and Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites. Ed Wynn will get the first star-studded salute from Texaco Command Appearance, an hour-long series spotlighting big-time performers. Henry Saloman...
Died. Clara Bell Walsh, 70-odd ("none of your business"), widow of St. Louis, Millionaire Julius S. Walsh Jr. (died 1922), lavish Manhattan hostess who had a suite in the Plaza Hotel for nearly 50 years, and whose intimate soirees of "200 or so" friends were the starting point of many a Broadway career; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan...
...have just the furniture to seat your nudes"), and reliable chestnuts like "Bring something round-we'll have a ball." But Paar's low-toned impudence and highhanded wit often came off engagingly. Reading off late news bulletins, he announced deadpan that Kathryn Murray, the indefatigable hostess of The Arthur Murray Party (TIME, July 22), "will not fight Floyd Patterson for the heavyweight championship of the world." He ribaldly admired the way Golfer Louise Suggs "drops her shorts on each green" and suggested to Hollywood Composer Dimitri Tiomkin some popular lyrics for new movies: "You are a mess...
Earle Edgerton, handicapped by a slim physique, nonetheless took firm command of Falstaff and played an admirable complement to Gervasi's Hal--lying, bluffing, and buffooning with gusto and expertise. Arthur Waldstein sparkled suprisingly in the small role of Poins. Marguerite Tarrant, as the Hostess, played an uproarious game of pinch-bottom with Edgerton...
...hostess, Kathryn leaves many a male viewer feeling that her fingers are clutching his lapels. But for sheer limb-risking vigor as a lady of 50 with five grandchildren, she is worth goggling at. In her pantomimic specialty, she has enacted cats, urchins and tramps, done somersaults, cartwheels and pratfalls, careened on roller skates and horses, swung from a chandelier and a trapeze; acrobats used her as a jump rope. Kathryn, an off-screen wit, belittles the on-screen Kathryn: "You just lend your body to anyone you know is strong." One of her daughters once asked: "Mother...