Word: sothern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Private Secretary (Sun. 7:30 p.m., CBS-TV) enters hoydenish Ann (Maisie) Sothern in the situation-comedy sweepstakes but, like many another imitator of I Love Lucy, it suffers from a feeble script. As secretary to a high-minded theatrical agent, Ann is shown masterminding his affairs, settling his domestic problems and using the wisecracks that TV seems to think make up the language of U.S. business. Most televiewers will find the comedy situations every bit as familiar and repetitive as the Lucky Strike commercials...
...Hope Scholarship for Harvard students in the Sothern California area will be inaugurated at the time. The funds for the award will be provided from the proceeds of the dinner, to be attended by over 800 alumni...
...brained wife that there is something unhealthy about her happy marriage and faithful husband. The worst thing about the play isn't that it never comes within hailing distance of satire, but that it is altogether stupefying as farce. And to the claptrap of Broadway, Movie Actors Ann Sothern and Robert Cummings add all the coyness of Hollywood...
Great Shakespearean Moments (Sun. 12:30 p.m., NBC). Recordings of Ellen Terry, Sir Henry Irving, Otis Skinner, Edward Sothern and Julia Marlowe...
...England of farmer stock, she moved to Kansas with her family at five, played her first stage part in Cincinnati at twelve, reached Broadway stardom in 1887. Best known for her warm, throaty "Juliet" and "Ophelia," she toured the U.S. for years with her husband, famed Actor E. H. Sothern ("Sothern & Marlowe"), made Shakespeare a big box-office attraction. She retired in 1924, lived in seclusion at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel after Sothern's death in 1933, emerged briefly on one public occasion to say to reporters: "I wonder if what I think matters...