Word: showgirl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only scene sure to delight involves a beautiful showgirl with a crushed-rock voice named Parker McCormick. Miss McCormick plays one of Graham's discarded loves and while she perhaps wouldn't wear well, her few minutes save Act II. Since this act also contains those painful episodes when the play becomes preachy, Miss McCormick's achievement takes on heroic proportions...
...ceramics show in Long Beach, Calif., a bust of a young girl was exhibited by a sculptress whose name had a gaslitera ring to older art patrons. The artist: onetime Showgirl Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, 69, who was plunged into scream-headline scandal (and won the dubious title of "the girl with the bee-sting lips") in 1906, when her husband, millionaire Financier Harry K. Thaw, in a jealous fit of suspicion, shot and killed the nation's No. 1 architect, Stanford White, on the nightclub roof of Manhattan's old Madison Square Garden. But the sting was gone...
Born. To Horace Dodge Jr., 53, motor millionaire, and his fifth wife, Gregg Sherwood (real name: Dora Mae Fjelstad), 30, blonde ex-showgirl: their first child (his fifth), a son; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Name: John Francis. Weight...
...such a flimsy plot, Lehmann drapes a super production involving 160-odd voices, 13 changes of scene, 94 stage hands, 37 electricians and some 100 supers. There is a showgirl chorus line, and eight special ballets. Flowery perfumes, concocted to match Weber's music, waft through the theater. In Act II there are no fewer than nine women suspended on nearly invisible wires above the staga ("They reminded me of airplanes waiting to land," said one reviewer...
...booming '20s controlled an estimated $400 million in theatrical real estate. Working 15 hours a day, he survived both the Depression and the influx of movies, remorselessly squeezed out potential competitors. No man for publicity, he kept his 1936 marriage to Showgirl Marcella Swanson a secret for twelve years (until she sued for divorce, later remarried him). In 1950, charged with violating the U.S. antitrust law, Mister Lee disclaimed any monopoly of the U.S. theater, complained: "We have operated with an efficiency that deserves the encouragement rather than the criticism of [the] Government...