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...fetching college freshman of 18, as reported in Playboy, but a fetching high-school senior of 16, and thus, in the eyes of Illinois law, too young to appear unclothed in the public prints. Also charged: Mrs. Cathy Darnell, Elizabeth's 39-year-old mother, an unemployed showgirl...
...Prince and the Showgirl. Sir Laurence Olivier puts Marilyn Monroe through some evasive hip action in a Graustarkian romp around 1911 London (TIME, June...
Died. Peggy Hopkins Joyce (maiden name: Margaret Upton), 64, blonde, blue-eyed, oldtime showgirl, six times married, 50 times engaged (her boast), who wed and fled three U.S. millionaires in rapid succession but collected and gloried in Rolls-Royces, furs, jewels, champagne and swimming pools until she came to symbolize the high-living, big-spending '20s; of throat cancer; in Manhattan...
Only rarely do quiz producers get caught in indiscretions. The Big Surprise is being sued by Showgirl Dale Logue, who complains that she was deliberately fed a question that defeated her for $10,000. It was the same question, she says, that she muffed during a "warmup session" before the show. In their growing desperation to check falling ratings that have knocked six quiz-panel shows off the air since October, the programs may be taking greater risks, especially in trying to woo celebrities as contestants. Showman Nils T. Granlund, who won $10,000 from The Big Surprise on "extremely...
Ziegfeld Follies can be thanked for bringing Beatrice Lillie, after four years, back to Broadway. Unhappily, it has brought nothing of its fabled oldtime self back. Not only is Rome not rebuilt in a day; not only do styles in architecture change-even showgirl architecture-but there is the always irreducible need of using good bricks and mortar...