Word: mistressing
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Died. Charlotte Armstrong, 64, grande dame of American suspense novelists; of cancer; in Glendale, Calif. Occasional poet, fashion reporter and playwright, Miss Armstrong turned mistress of the macabre with the 1942 publication of Lay On, Mac Duff; she went on to write more than a score of chillers, and in 1957 won the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allan Poe Award for A Dram of Poison. "Maybe we are all potential murderers," she once said, "and reading stories about that crime releases us in some...
HADDONFIELD, N.J. Camden County Music Fair. A bachelor dentist keeps himself from being trapped by telling his mistress that he is married; then when she wants to meet the wife, he puts his nurse through the drill of filling the part in Cactus Flower, a farce that stars Hugh O'Brian and Sheila MacRae...
...play is a malicious sexual satire about a headmaster who seduces the mistress of the local political chairman. But Kundera gives the work countless double meanings aimed at conformists, informers, party bureaucracy and jargon, the security police and the Russian occupation. Played with snap and brass by a young experimental company, Ptakovina keeps audiences constantly off balance with laughter. But the most resounding applause comes without a laugh when the headmaster tells his own fiancee that he hasn't the heart to be a hypocrite any longer; that "I've lost my second face." "Better find it again...
...thought I told you never to come here," barks the man at his mistress. The line is a cliche, but then so is the situation. A British salesman, Steve Howard (Rod Steiger), picks up a snippy, nubile hitchhiker named Ella (Judy Geeson). In a little black notebook, Ella has been rating her loves the way a teacher marks her pupils. After a night in a Birmingham hotel, she grants the salesman an A minus, a mark that prompts him to give his wife...
Probably the best number, though, belongs to an actress who works so hard at it, she almost makes you believe she can't sing. Don't believe it. From her first words as Meg Dillon, the caretaker's mistress, Sheila Hart is in character as a woman (Meg) relaxed and yet confident as she consciously plays ringmaster to the living theatre that is her brothel. In just a few seconds, she similarly includes the audience in her barrage of insults and confidences. Her bitter ballad near the end of the second act, where she is backed by the male members...