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...Manhattan's Chatham Hotel, where he was staying with the other members of Communist Poland's U.N. delegation. Suitcase in hand, he tiptoed down the fire stairs to the ninth floor, then took an elevator to the lobby. He left the hotel, went to the phone booth in an all-night restaurant nearby and dialed a Manhattan number. After a short conversation in Polish, he left the restaurant and hailed a taxi. In this manner, Dr. Marek Korowicz, 50, professor of international law at Cracow University and the top legal adviser to the delegation, made...
...mountainside in Colorado, Shirley is spinning the same theatrical magic that has made her beloved in the canyons of Manhattan. Drama-minded Coloradans and vacationers from every part of the U.S. are crowding the 75-year-old Central City Opera House to applaud Shirley Booth in her most recent Broadway hit, Arthur Laurents' The Time of the Cuckoo, the story of a virginal business girl named Leona Samish, who trips over her own moral standards on an Italian vacation...
...landlady. Then she will rush back to Broadway for rehearsals of a new musical, By the Beautiful Sea, which is being written to order for her by Herbert and Dorothy (Annie Get Your Gun) Fields. After more than a quarter-century as a second-stringer in the theater, Shirley Booth is now the hottest thing in show business. She is suddenly the first lady of the American stage and screen...
Dirty Hands. Shirley believes that "my childhood made me a peculiar person." Born in 1907 on Manhattan's middle-class Morningside Heights in the shadow of Columbia University, she was christened Thelma Booth Ford. Her father, Albert J. Ford, was a serious-minded salesman for International Business Machines Corp., who lived by such venerable homilies as "Children should be seen and not heard." Shirley says: "He was the sort of man you'd run up to breathless and happy and he'd say, 'Your hands are dirty...
Lady Macbeth? How great an actress is Shirley Booth? What are her limits and capabilities? Audiences are usually so completely taken in by the character she is playing that they are unconscious of Shirley as a skilled performer. But they are likely to remember the character for days or for years to come. Radio listeners who have only known her as Miss Duffy would swear that she is a hilariously funny bit of fuzz-brained fluff. Moviegoers who have seen her only as Lola in Come Back, Little Sheba have difficulty imagining her as anything but an aging frump...