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After graduating from Kansas City's Westport High School in 1932, the girl clerked in the Kansas City Junior League Thrift Shop, later worked as a salesgirl and a model in Harzfeld's specialty shop. In 1938 she changed her name to Ann Eden and went to New York in search of fame. She was a Powers model. ("An all-round, wholesome-looking girl," recalls John Robert Powers. "We don't get calls for them like that any more. Nowadays they want a cadaverous look...
...Rath, the man in the gray flannel suit, is a run-of-the-treadmill commuter who knows that his $7,000 post with the genteel Schanenhauser Foundation makes him, his wife and three children no more than glorified peons on their cash-conscious street in Westport, Conn. His wife Betsy is a brunette charmer with pronounced but somewhat whimsical notions of budgetary discipline ("No more homogenized milk . . . We're going to save two cents a quart and shake the bottle ourselves...
Flashing Inlays. In Chicago last week, Amy completed the filming of 39 five-minute TV shows and flew back home to Westport, Conn, to rest up before making 39 more films this fall. It had been a job tough enough to strain even the ineffable Vanderbilt poise. The films were shot in ten days, none were rehearsed, and all of them, except for the commercials (for American Bakeries Co.), were written by Amy. To keep her weight down, Amy lived on orange juice, water and buttermilk during the shooting; to counter the hot lights on the set, she took...
Died. James Earle Fraser, 76, who at 17 fashioned the model for one of the most famed and popular of U.S. sculptures, End of the Trail, depicting a weary Indian sagging on an exhausted pony, later designed the buffalo nickel; of a heart ailment; in Westport, Conn...
...Theatre Guild persuaded Shirley to take a part in Come Back, Little Sheba, which was scheduled for a one-week tryout at the Westport, Conn. Country Playhouse. After three days of rehearsals, Playwright Inge and Director Mann were desperate. They had concluded that Shirley simply could not handle the role. They were chiefly upset by her stock-company approach to rehearsals: she merely walked through the part, mumbling her lines. Tearing their hair, Inge and Mann begged the Theatre Guild to get rid of Shirley and hire Joan Blondell in her place. Then, on the fourth day, Shirley was suddenly...