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...glass wall. For some degree of privacy, the garden or patio outside is surrounded by a wall or hedge, is usually accessible only through the bathroom. Thus, while shaving or showering, the occupant can sunbathe, sing with the birds and watch the grass grow. Says one dismayed Los Angeles matron: "Using a bathroom like that is like being caught out in the middle of a prairie...
...only an occasional chuckle. General: "Hurry up; General Eisenhower is waiting." Danny: "Well, tell him not to. I don't do him." When he is captured, Danny gets a reel and a half of pantomime in which to play a Gestapo agent, a Luftwaffe pilot, a fur-wrapped matron and Marlene Dietrich (singing Cocktails for Zwei). It's funny-but it seems to have been lobbed in because the script was getting just too dull for words...
...Wicked Baronet, a mystery that began on a slow train through Wessex is resolved on a sun-dappled veranda in the Virgin Islands. The sea change caused by these junketings around the globe is generally favorable to Waugh's writing. In his 1926 The Making of a Matron, he needed 17 pages to dissect the not-too-complex character of a London deb; in 1942, when writing Bien Sûr, he required only six pages to tell infinitely more about a charming, pliant Lebanese girl whose good sense and good nature made war agreeable to Allied soldiers...
...face with a squirt of ether from a spray bomb. "I went to another party dressed as a Roman girl," she explained in a shout above the din, "but it's hard to do bumps in a toga." From another table top near by, a handsome young matron in a white Carmen Miranda outfit went right on wiggling her bare midriff as she confided that she had left her three children with her husband's parents. "Eight years I've been coming," she boasted, tossing off still another glass of whiskey. "Only once, when I was pregnant...
Visiting an old friend-Director John Huston-during the filming of The Misfits last summer, the green-eyed, blonde Manhattan matron was suddenly beckoned to by Star Clark Gable. "You," he ordered. Huston's visitor was promptly hired as an extra, made her movie debut in an opening-scene kiss with Gable. The role was just another chapter in the multi-chaptered life of Marietta Peabody Fitzgerald Tree, 43, a decorative, deserving Democrat who last week became the U.S. representative to the U.N. Human Rights Commission. To fellow Boston Brahmins, Marietta is the granddaughter of Groton School Founder Endicott...