Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ruth Gordon, 79. "If you missed a show and you were young, it meant you were having an abortion. If you were old, it meant you were having a facelift." Gordon, however, was simply having salted codfish balls and mashed potatoes when she sat down to lunch in a Manhattan restaurant with her husband of 33 years, Writer Garson Kanin. The result? A case of ptomaine and three days away from Broadway's Mrs. Warren's Profession, where she is currently starring as a middle-aged madam. "It's a wicked thing," allowed Gordon of her illness...
Seltzer has been leading a double life ever since. Before leaving his Princeton home for Manhattan (50 miles away) each day, he attends English department meetings and directs the university's theater and dance program, which he initiated in 1974. Unlike those of most universities, the program is not designed to train students to go directly on the stage after graduation. Explains Seltzer: "I am not interested in increasing the number of unemployed actors. I believe that a study of theater is the best way to expand minds and sharpen emotions." Indeed only a small percentage...
...week unveiled the newest of her high-priced nightspots. The sometime singer-actress, notorious for banning the unhip from her clubs in Paris, Monte Carlo and Rio, was all open arms as she offered several hundred guests a preview look at her new dance-and-dining emporium. The locale: Manhattan's Delmonico hotel. The stars: Actress Candice Bergen, Designer Hubert de Givenchy and former Vogue Editor Diana Vreeland. The floor show: a fashion exhibit featuring "ready-to-dance" dresses created by the red-haired restaurateur herself. "I have always, since a child, dream to have my name on Broadway...
Died. Jo Mielziner, 74, versatile Broadway set designer (Death of a Salesman, South Pacific, The King and I, Gypsy); of a stroke; in Manhattan. The son of a portraitist, Mielziner studied painting as a youth, then went onstage to get the actor's point of view. He prepared hundreds of sketches until he achieved the design and the lighting that would "make people grasp a situation as quickly as possible." A five-time Tony Award winner and a one-time Academy Award winner (color art direction for the movie Picnic), he always aimed, as a set designer...
...Manhattan-born Albert Capraro, 32, a onetime assistant to de la Renta, had a Ford in his future. After only six months on his own in January 1975, he was asked to show his collection to the First Lady. Betty Ford was soon joined as a customer by Daughter Susan and Barbara Walters, the current Miss America and three of her predecessors, Polly Bergen and Ambassador to Britain Anne Armstrong. Capraro's brightly colored, low-priced jumpsuits ($100) and one-piece dresses (from $60) are as close to Middle America as Seventh Avenue can get-and last year Capraro...