Word: mame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Auntie Mame, the cyclonic stage version of Novelist Patrick Dennis' bookful of lunacy, is playing San Francisco with brassy Eve Arden, Alabama and Tennessee with tiny but dynamic Sylvia Sidney, and Chicago with Constance Bennett, who is nearly as good as the original production's Rosalind Russell...
...Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov 2. Around the World with Auntie Mame, Patrick Dennis...
...middle-class, middle-brow men and women will pay good money to see. One is the dashing international gypsy, suave and prestigious, something of a rascal, preferably done in a clipped British accent. Another is the brusque, dammit-to-hell type society woman, a kind of orthodox Auntie Mame, who bustles around and smokes like a man. The audience, of course, likes to dream themselves into the two for an evening. What the actors do while they walk around in these characters doesn't matter a whole...
...stone monarchs and prophets (Queen Elizabeth I, Erasmus) have gazed through the steam at generations of bare, Blimpish backsides. One night last week the steam rooms and massage parlors presented a shocking sight: crowds of people who were fully dressed, or almost. To celebrate the London premiere of Auntie Mame, starring Bea Lillie, Producer David Pelham had picked the Turkish bath as the logical place for a party. The result was as wacky a shindig as any the Madwoman of Beekman Place herself might have improvised...
There was only one thing wrong: everyone already knew that the British critics were dismissing Auntie Mame as a sad, soggy, American-style flop. But the party was (as even the British have learned to say) socko...