Word: one-woman
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Much of her advice made good sense, particularly when she campaigned for elementary cleanliness ("Keep clean inside and out!") and "attacked the widespread prejudice against fresh air." She conducted a one-woman campaign for safety and sanitary regulations in industry at a time when factory girls had little protection. In such ways she became a force to be reckoned with in U.S. life. Long before she died (in 1883), her face and name had become part of the country's folklore and humor. One standard story...
...keep her gift under control over a long period. Her performances fluctuate more than most after the opening night. Says a friend: "The longer she plays in something, the less you see of the play, the more you see of Tallulah." She has turned Private Lives into a one-woman show-at once the triumph of a personality and the surrender of an actress. Says she: "I'm Tallulah in this play, and I'm not a bit ashamed...
Miss Wright is speaking as a part of her one-woman campaign in opposition to the American Communist domination of the conference under the auspices of the AVC Committee on International Affairs...
Miss Hayes makes the most of her one-woman show. Torching a custom-built Rodgers-Hammerstein number, 'I Haven't Got a Worry in the World,' or toasting everyone in sight from a tectering perch atop three bar stools (sample: "May all your troubles be little ones and may all your little ones be yours"), she renders choice Loos-isms classic. Her love scene under the table with Louis Jean Heydt, staged to the exactly appropriate subdued degree, is something you are not likely to forget...
...someone from a foreign country. . . . When other fraternities decide to [admit Negroes] we probably will too. We don't try to be different." Her advice to the Vermont chapter: they should have told Crystal to form a Negro sorority. At Vermont, this would have to be a one-woman club...