Word: exactress
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...commonplace domestic predicament, NBC's Board Chairman Sylvester ("Pat") Weaver noted that the dress of his wife, exActress Elizabeth Inglis, was entirely unzipped in back, fumbled to rezip her, bungled the job. Tensely whispered Liz: "Why don't you put your arm around me?" Pat Weaver instantly did so. The main reason the incident proved embarrassing was that some 20 million TV fans were watching it on a rival network show, CBS's Person to Person...
...authors have written what they call a fairy tale-a good enough term for what it would be hard to call a play. In it, Miss Hull is an exactress who is also a tiny stockholder in a vast corporation. She attends a public stockholders' meeting, asks embarrassing questions and, as a way of being shushed, is hired by the company. Once installed, she engineers shake-ups and scandals, and at the end is head of the corporation...
Died. Gertrude Maynard Anderson, 48, Canadian-born exactress, and second wife of Pulitzer Prizewinning Playwright Maxwell (Both Your Houses, Winterset) Anderson; by her own hand (carbon monoxide poisoning) ; near New City...
...exactress who toured with Nazimova in War Brides during 1914-15, Nila is a childless widow in her late fifties. Her scripts, in which, as she says, "the good are very good and the bad get just what they deserve," come out flatly against racial prejudice, boom such worthy sentiments as honor and service in good causes. Her sound-effects men developed some wonderful sizzling and steaming noises when boiling oil was poured over Ali Baba's 40 thieves hiding in jars. Bluebeard gets his just deserts, too, but only by implication: "The kids are tickled to death when...
...last week, three cops, summoned by a doctor who had already made his report, forced open the door of a Gramercy Park apartment. Inside stood a blonde exactress who sobbed that her dinner companion of the night before had complained of feeling "awful" and had come to her place to rest. Behind her in the bedroom lay the body of John Garfield. After 39 years, the tough guy's heart had given...