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Died. Theda Bara (real name: Theodosia Goodman), 65. heavy-lidded vamp of the silent screen (The Serpent of the Nile, Camille, The Vampire); of cancer; in Los Angeles. Cincinnati-born Theda Bara scored her first success in 1914 as the irresistible temptress of A Fool There Was ("Kiss me. my fool!"), was soon billed as "The Wickedest Woman in the World." became the subject of some of the most elaborate and preposterous pressagentry in screen history. Her first name, the publicists pointed out. was an anagram of "death.'' her last name "Arab" spelled backwards. She was born, they...
...women. On Robert Montgomery Presents, attractive Peggy Ann Garner toiled through an hour of unrequited love only to have her man drop dead of a heart attack. On Studio One, Gaby Rodgers was murdered before the show went on the air, but got her chance to act the fiery temptress in a series of foot-stamping flashbacks. On the U.S. Steel Hour, Gertrude Berg played a slightly touched matron whose relatives weuld not believe that she talked on the phone every Sunday to her dead husband. Climax! offered a double dose of misery: both Sylvia Sidney and Diana Lynn suffered...
...walked faster, and the golden lights seemed warm in the windows. The season of gifts and cruises to the South was approaching, and a large cosmetics firm greeted it with a new lipstick and a momentous ad: "There's a new American beauty . . . she's tease and temptress, siren and gamin, dynamic and demure. Men find her slightly, delightfully baffling. Sometimes a little maddening." In Providence, Mary Burns, 21, hit her father on the head several times with a hammer, explaining: "He's ugly-looking, and he made me that...
...remains for four well known members of the local company to hold up the major portion of the play. Jan Farrand, too often the temptress in Brattle works, handles the role of Octavia with a naive idealism which is believable despite its inherent weakness. Cavada Humphrey and Earl Montgomery represent the hypocrisy of our American democracy carefully and accurately, and Michael Wager returns to Cambridge in a difficult role which he carries off with the skill and understanding of a seasoned actor...
...These Harvard men are all right for in between times," said the toweled temptress, "but on week-ends a girl likes to have some...