Word: stritch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mimi, effectively played by the star Elaine Stritch, is surrounded by a bevy of brats. She's the social director, also in charge of civilizing the passenger's children. One delightful incorrigible, Alvin Lush, will not succumb. As they play and sing through an alphabet song, little Alvin changes the "s" in shore to "w," and, when the children form Mimi's name, old Alvin comes along and turns the "w's" upside down. A hot sketch that Alvin...
...Father Ryan went back to Chicago in 1958 to be consecrated by the late Cardinal Stritch as Titular Bishop of Margo and Prelate Nullius of Santarém. He recalls his return to the Amazon as a kind of replay of the triumphal procession in Aïda. "They put me into my old jeep, all decorated with white crepe paper and gave me a bouncing ride over every dirt street in town. All the local dignitaries gave talks, and since it was an election year, they turned them into political speeches. The choir sang like crazy, and I blessed...
...record, he as a director and she as playwright, for seriously antagonizing almost no one, despite the frenetic, hypersensitive atmosphere of pre-Broadway rehearsals, when nearly everyone behaves?as Jean Kerr puts it?"as if they had just been rescued from burning stables." The lone, whinnying exception is Elaine Stritch, frenetic, hypersensitive star of their unfortunate 1958 musical, Goldilocks. "Jean and Walter," says Elaine, "are like the classroom...
...production, with every joke clicking right into place, but also overestimates the amount of new humor that can be choked from the old contest between a scatterbrained actress and her no-nonsense sister. In last week's episode, Eileen (played by Shirley Bonne) caused Sister Ruth (Elaine Stritch) sleepless nights when she invaded the lair of a panting Broadway producer. One genuinely amusing touch: in a nightmare, Big Sister visualizes the producer's office furnished entirely with couches, and flies to the rescue as Super-Ruth. Although too much depended on the belief, no longer universally entertained, that...