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Born. To Philip Lang Crosby. 25, one of Bing's balladeer boys, and Sandra Jo Drummond, 21, onetime Las Vegas showgirl: their second child, first son, the Groaner's fourth grandchild (one adopted) ; in Los Angeles...
...champion!" ¶ A Loss of Roses has Shirley Booth as the listed star, but until the Booth part gets beefed up, the show belongs to Carol (Pajama Game) Haney. Latest of Playwright William Inge's lost characters, Haney's Lila Green is a high-spirited, Class-D showgirl who left home to search for the bright lights, but who has come back beaten, wanting "to crawl inside a man's shirt and stay there." Survivor of a disastrous marriage and a tour in a mental hospital, Lila moves in on Old Friend
...Augie's best friends was blonde Janice Drake, 33, onetime showgirl, Miss New Jersey in 1944, and wife of TV Comic Allen Drake. Like Augie, Jan had a talent for encountering people just before curtain time. She was questioned closely about Anastasia's death, and Nat Nelson, a playboy garment distributor, was found murdered in his bachelor apartment the morning after a date with...
...playwright achieved any coherent form for his work. June Havoc as Joanne deLynn, a slick showgirl type over-the-hill, ponders the morality of an affair with a younger man, finally deciding morality is not a pertinent question. Completely unrelated to this, Ruth Arnold (Julie Harris) is fighting her battle, or laying her trap, for handsome Jack Williams (Farley Granger), whose intentions are less than honorable...
Died. Elizabeth Dodero Shannon, 45, onetime Ziegfeld showgirl (stage name: Betty Sundmark) who. while appearing in Monte Carlo Follies, met and married Argentine Shipping Magnate Alberto Dodero, became an international-set hostess and an intimate friend of Argentine Dictator Juan Peron and wife Eva; in Manhattan. To solidify her husband's personal-business relationship with Peron, Betty once stripped a diamond ring off her finger to give Eva when she admired...