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...meet his family. One of the points of interest was the First Precinct station, former headquarters for Brown when he pounded a beat on the Richmond force back in the early 1930's. Dressed in diamonds and a brand new, $15,000 mink coat (her old sable wrap, said Brown, was just too heavy "for my little pixie to carry around"), Marion went on a tourof the lockup. At the sight of some 30 smalltime crooks and drunks sleeping it off, the Christmas spirit struck. Marion offered to foot the fines for all concerned and empty the jail...
...didn't go to bed. She went back to her hotel room and downed three large glasses of heady red wine. Then she tucked a bottle of alcohol from her spirit stove in her wrap and stole back to the theater. "Just picking up my stepson's things," she told the doorman as she entered. The doorman nodded sleepily, and Eva slipped backstage. She slopped the alcohol over some newspapers and jammed the sodden mess in among the scenery. Then she dropped a match and flounced out. Four hours later, all that was left of "the oldest theater...
...will stay in Manhattan as long as people want to hear her, then go to Mexico City. She would love to go to Hollywood-"what performer wouldn't?" But Amalia, who freely admits she can wrap any Portuguese audience around her little finger, is frightened. "I don't think I'm good enough," she says...
...meal ("You just have to get the seat of your pants higher than your head"). She believes that it helps her think more clearly to take at least five baths a day; she shampoos her hair oftener than Mary Martin has to in South Pacific; she likes to wrap her feet in wet cloths. Her insatiable curiosity is equaled only by her dauntless enthusiasm. She strides earnestly through each new city, inspecting everything from museums to maternity wards. When she got to Africa for the filming of The African Queen, she caroled: "What divine natives! What divine morning glories...
This suggests perhaps that the Poets need not wrap themselves in musty cloaks of symbolism and obscure verbiage to place their audiences since Eberhardt's social drama and Miss Lurie's fantacy were both successful for the Poet's' Theater and entertaining for its spectators...