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...protest to the disturbers. At 5 a.m. the noise and the party ceased. The party was given by two newlyweds, David Tennant (son of Viscountess Grey of Fallodon) and Mrs. Tennant (nee Hermione Baddeley, actress). They wore orange sleeping suits of silk; the guests, too, came in blazing pajamas; many brought bottles of hair restorers, ink, gasoline, Thames water. Champagne was not lacking. After the party, Mrs. Tennant said: "Bottle and pajama parties ought to be the vogue in weather like the present . . . I think London will take to the idea...
...grand jury in North Carolina indicted MacDonald for the murders. When MacDonald finally took the stand, his wounded-victim posture collapsed. This time the prosecution's reconstruction of the murders, based on blood types, a footprint, and threads from the doctor's pajama top, horrified grand jurors. Mac-Donald apparently had bludgeoned Colette and Kimberly and held two-year-old Kristen across his lap to stab her. At his rial delayed almost five years by appeals, he was found guilty of first-and second-degree murder. MacDonald is now serving three consecutive life terms in a Texas federal...
...comic song-and-dance man whose career began at age five in his vaudevillian father's act "Eddie Foy and the Seven Little Foys," and whose marvelously rubbery face and limbs stole shows on Broadway and TV and in the movies, most famously in The Pajama Game; of cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif...
...burbly stories of brave understudies suddenly being called in to take over, at which point a famous agent or director notices them and sends them on to stardom. This inspiring scenario put the first spotlight on Shirley MacLaine, who won a Hollywood contract after subbing for Carol Haney in Pajama Game. But even the understudies find it difficult to believe that such things actually happen. "Those who think that being an understudy will lead to opportunities are wrong," says British Actor Daniel Gerroll, who covers for Edward Herrmann in Plenty. When a star leaves a play, understudies rarely become replacements...
Hair is back in town this summer, for what our statistician calculates is the 14.396th undergraduate production of the musical (third place behind West Side Story and Pajama Game). Surprisingly, the show works for the most part because its producer-directors reject the temptation to noodle with the original...