Word: lionessed
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...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...
...Lioness in the Living Room...
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...
Worn to a frazzle with casting problems for his new circus picture, The Greatest Show on Earth, Director Cecil B. DeMille dutifully posed for a pressagent's picture with a "hopeful starlet" licking his hand. The starlet: "Little Tyke," a four-year-old vegetarian lioness, raised on Pablum, milk and corn flakes...