Word: stritch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...triumphs together, Rodgers' tunes were never suaver, wittier, more engaging-whether in such favorites as Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered and I Could Write a Book or in such a mocking female duet as Take Him. Seldom were Hart's lyrics brisker, brighter, more uninhibited, enabling Elaine Stritch -for one example-to stop the show with Zip, a spoof of a striptease...
Everybody likes Sisters Mary Jeanne Madeleine and Mary Francis Terese of the Third Order of St. Francis of Assisi. At Milwaukee's Cardinal Stritch College, music students flock to them; and for the children of St. John's School for the Deaf, the day they come to teach is the high point of the week. The sisters (who are twins) can feel the smiles that greet them as they rustle into a room. But they cannot see the smiles, for they are almost totally blind...
...Reducing the strength of the College of Cardinals (top, 70) to 50, the number of U.S. cardi nals to three: Mooney of Detroit, Stritch of Chicago, Spellman of New York...
...minor character who is extremely annoying. Usually it is and American, who is supplied with a pile of Yankee idiom and a vicious accent and who distributes these to the audience with magnanimity. But "Yes M'Lord" 's American is a girl and relatively well behaved, and Elaine Stritch brings enough, restraint to the role to excuse her occasional moralizing. She is part of a generally excellent cast...