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...Women. The most damaging blows against the bill were delivered by the women M.P.s. Mrs. Lena Jeger, who sits for vice-ridden Holborn and St. Pancras South, objected to the use of the word "loitering" in the bill, and stirred giggles by stating that she liked "loitering" in disreputable streets, because they were interesting ones. Slight, blue-haired Joan Vickers said coolly: "I rather wonder whether, if the House of Commons consisted of 602 women and 28 men, this bill would have come before us today...
...jovial farewell to the cast of The Entertainer, in which he played a boozy, aging song-and-dance man, Actor Laurence Olivier piped some 150 show-world guests (among them: Lena Home, Peter Ustinov, Ralph Bellamy) aboard a chartered excursion liner for a midnight cruise up the Hudson River. Garbed somewhat loosely in naval attire (explained mink-clad Actress Jessica Tandy: "I'm dressed as a Russian lady sailor"), Olivier's un-nautical crew dipped into champagne and stout, danced Scottish reels to the skirl of a bagpipe, taxied home from the cruise...
...ambition to be a pure jazz singer ("not profitable"), has carefully cultivated the delicate art of wooing local disk jockeys. So far, he has been seasoning himself in small clubs, avoiding the gaudier barns on the theory that "I haven't yet got the ability of a Lena Home to take a thousand people and bring them down to the size of a fist...
...RELEASE and read: "One of the biggest show-business weddings of this era will take place when Shirl Conway, the musical comedy and TV star, and Composer Bernie [Vanessa] Wayne, will be married over the NBC network from 2:30 to 3 p.m., in the Studio Chapel. Guest list: Lena Home, Faye Emerson, Julie Wilson...many other celebrities." On the afternoon of New Year's Eve, as announced. Shirl and Bernie were married-under a sky of klieg lights in Manhattan's RCA building, before a TV audience of about 3,000,000. "We have so many friends...
...airy sets. Miles White's gorgeous costumes give it style. If it has almost no Broadway snap, it has even less Broadway brassiness. If this is a Jamaica with little ginger and no rum, those, after all, are largely its exports. From at least a musicomedy standpoint, Lena Horne, gay colors, winning tunes-and even shiftless lie-in-the-sun librettos-are its tourist attractions...