Word: lioness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wait till you see Playhouse go" matronly Party Giver Perle Mesta was telling everybody in Hollywood last week. "You'll feel sorry for me." Perle was right, but for the wrong reasons. She had hoped to de-emphasize her reputation as a gay social lioness. Instead, in her first TV biography, The Hostess with the Mostes', Party Girl Perle was caught in a clicheé-ridden gusher that coated with crude her life as oil and machine tools heiress, society matriarch, diplomatic envoy and social worker. Young Evelyn Rudie and veteran Shirley Booth wrestled hopelessly with Perle...
...Author Faulkner was no older than 48 when Literary Lioness Stein died...
...black straw hat cluttered with artificial flowers, showed up, herself looking like a 19th century period piece. She was none other than Alice B. Toklas, 79, longtime companion of Poetess Gertrude ("A rose is a rose is a rose") Stein. She soon headed for the famed portrait of Literary Lioness Stein that Picasso painted in 1906, gazed at it with a touch of blank sadness, moved on. Said Critic Toklas: "The show is excellent but rather short on blue-and-rose-period works...
...Tell me." he entreated, "if we slipped out, do you think the public would notice?" Cécile claims to possess the "majesty" and "wildness" of a lioness, and finds it natural to describe herself as "the Victory of Woman, of Spring-just Victory." As the applause rained down on her entrances and exits, she wondered: "Was it possible that I was so much loved?" Every reader will know the answer: Yes, by Cécile Sorel...
Tallulah Bankhead last week made most TV screens seem far too small. On the U.S. Steel Show (alt. Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC-TV), starring in a production of Hedda Gabler, Tallulah turned Ibsen's devious, subtly evil heroine into a flamboyant, shouting hussy. It was like a lioness playing Puss in Boots. To TV audiences educated to the quiet underplaying of such shows as Dragnet, watching Actress Bankhead was a startling experience...