Word: pertness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lord Chamberlain. His jaundiced eye fell upon the lyrics of a song scheduled for a forthcoming revue prophetically entitled The Lord Chamberlain Regrets . . . Noting that the song concerns "the wife of a head of state," the Lord Chamberlain ordered the skit deleted, depriving Londoners of a chance of seeing pert Actress Jill Ireland, 24, impersonate Jacqueline Kennedy. The lyrics...
Died. Pamela Wilde Kastner Garroway, 34, pert second wife of TV Star Dave (Today) Garroway; presumably from an overdose of barbiturates; in Manhattan...
Irma La Douce. Elizabeth Seal is the tenderest tart in this pert musical...
...Virginity finds a nice young boy and girl immobilized with modesty as they try to make love for the first time. "Tomorrow morning, maybe?" she asks shyly at the fade. "It's a shame to waste the room." Marriage (written and directed by René Clair) is a pert disquisition on honeymoon hysterics...
...lesser principals were also consistently delightful. Charon Lee Cohen acted the part of Linda, Joey's girl, with pert assurance, and sang with engaging naivote. Laurie Could performed the role of Melba, the demon girl journalist, with the sort of fire and ice that has made her well-known to Harvard audiences. Andy Hiken, as the ncredible Ludlow Lowell, cavorted in the proper Runyonesque manner...