Word: irma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Room for Lots More. In Peacock Station, Va., Farmer Paul Rhinehart, 76, stood before a rachitic barn and pointed to Marian and Irma Zielezinski, who were feeding a yardful of clamorous chickens. Said he: "Here I was with 600 acres of the best land in northern Virginia. I just decided to get ahead of Congress in this building-a-new-world business...
Zionist Organization--Judith Gordon '50, president; Arline Landy '49, vice president; Irma Lewis '49, secretary; Marjorie Krensky '49, treasurer; Ann Shapiro '51, regional delegate...
Easy to Hate. Father and boss of Irma is 32-year-old Sy Howard, a breezy, gangly "threeheaded genius"* with a fondness for gaudy sport togs. In Irma's infancy, Sy handled everything, from the first line of script to the last directorial cue. Nowadays, he leaves much of the writing to scripters. But he still rules the show with a firm hand. "I'm an egomaniac," he says. "The cast hates me, but better they should hate me and give a good show than love me and we're off the air." For conventional radio comedy...
Hard to Believe. Irma's characterizations are cut to the measure of the cast. Every one of the actors looks and acts his part in & out of the script. Most astonishing of all is Irma herself, Cinemactress Marie Wilson, who has been playing the role of a dumb blonde for so long that she now lives the part. Marie's fluffs at rehearsals and on the air are daffier than anything a scripter might imagine. "She is so much like Irma," says Sy, "that I have to rewrite the things she says to make them believable...
...typed in capital letters. There are other difficulties, too. Once, when the program was on the air, Sy waved a frantic cue at her from the director's box, and Marie dazedly waved back. Another time, when a special speech by Senator Taft forced cancellation of an Irma broadcast, Sy broke the bad news: "Senator Taft's coming on in place of us." Marie stamped her foot and pouted: "You promised me, no guest stars...