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...second lead's standin. But when the Du Pont Show of the Month put What Every Woman Knows on the air last week, she gave new life to the dated charm of the J. M. Barrie play. As Maggie Wylie, the homely but wise and witty Scottish lass who is the real reason behind her bartered bridegroom's success, Ireland's Siobhan (pronounced Shi-vawn) McKenna, 35, was a trim, burr-voiced delight...
...than not, some of the best offstage Broadway humor involves one of the most famed Broadway characters-Tallulah Bankhead. Last week the latest Bankhead story was making the rounds from Lindy's to Sardi's. Tallulah, it seems, was stopped on Fifth Avenue by a Salvation Army lass shaking a tambourine for a holiday handout. Tallulah dipped into her handbag and produced a $50 bill. "Don't even bother to thank me, dahling," she growled as she dropped the bill into the tambourine. "I know what a perfectly ghastly season it's been for you Spanish...
Purring contentedly. Eliot is quick to admit that he owes his resurgent health and happiness to his copper-haired second wife,* an attractively plump Yorkshire lass with a creamy complexion, who has reminded more than one Eliot fan of Grishkin with her famous "promise of pneumatic bliss." Says a hard-boiled pal: "He's got this mad thing about love. The way he gazes with sheep's eyes at his wife you'd never guess they'd been married nearly two years and seen each other every day before that for seven." Valerie...
Worn by themselves, tights demand a near perfect figure. Lacking that, many a lass who tries to look like Peter Pan may wind up, alas, looking more like Sir Laurence Olivier playing Henry...
...dislikes Guggenheim fellowships ("When I was young . . . one didn't expect to be publicly supported just because one happened to write unsaleable verse"); and that he likes to test a poet's verboseness by summarizing stanzas in cablese, e.g., Wordsworth's "The Solitary Reaper": SOLITARY HIGHLAND LASS REAPING BINDING GRAIN STOP MELANCHOLY SONG OVERFLOWS PROFOUND VALE...