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...that forgives all if a taxpayer is out of the U.S. for 17 months out of 18. Van Johnson, Betty Hutton and Dorothy Lamour went back into vaudeville; Roz Russell and Bette Davis tried a retread on the legitimate stage; television sopped up Lucille Ball, Ann Sothern, Eve Arden and George Raft. Mike Romanoff, the royal restaurateur, made it final: "The motion picture community can no longer support...
...been in show business for 20 years," says breezy Ann (Maisie) Sothern, hard-working star of her own CBS-TV show, Private Secretary, "and this is the toughest thing I've ever done." After Actress Sothern had made seven Maisie movies and broadcast 78 Maisie radio programs, she was so tired of the dumb-blonde character that "the very name made me frantic." .Several months ago someone handed her a TV script for Private Secretary, and Ann decided it was just right...
...boss of the filmed program (cost: $27,500 a week), Ann Sothern has to be practical about her art: "It's a business of compromise. Time is of the essence. Cost is paramount. If you're trying...
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...