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...idea behind the program is to dramatize the life of a living person. As exhibit A, Edwards brought on Lillian Roth, 40, a topflight torch singer of the Prohibition era, who cheerfully admitted that she had been a hopeless drunk for 16 years before being rescued by Alcoholics Anonymous. Also on hand to underline the horrors of strong drink: a psychiatrist who had treated her (Announcer Edwards described Lillian as having suffered from "impending blindness, an inflamed sinus and a form of alcoholic insanity"); a brother-in-law who had paid her bills; such glamorous foul-weather friends as Lita...
Distress & Tragedy. With the help of an echo chamber, 39-year-old Edwards gets an eerie, disembodied quality into his voice, but everything comes back to happy normality in time for the Hazel Bishop No-Smear Lipstick commercial. Last week Edwards addressed Lillian Roth as if he were a supernatural prosecutor: "Confusion, distress and tragedy walked by your side even as you rose to the top-and soon all glamour was stripped from you, as drink follows drink, and you sink into a stupor that was to last for 16 years. These are the years to come before...
...Dinkelspiel, Jesse W. Doolittle, Jr., Norman Gold, Allen Greenberg, John Kaplan, Andrew L. Kaufman, Joel Kozol, Stuart J. Land, Donald I. Laventhall, Keinard M. Leiman, Arnold Lozowick, Richard M. Markus, Richard P. McGrath, Bruce Nichols, William Nickols, John T. Noonan, William D. Parsley, Judson A. Parsons, Jr., Arnold I. Roth, Peter H. Schiff and Edward C. Stebbins...
Berserk & Brilliant. In Paris, he met an art dealer friend who offered to introduce him to Utrillo. "So I went out to Utrillo's house," he explained. "We sat around and talked, and pretty soon I was taking pictures." Utrillo liked the pictures and introduced Roth to Vlaminck -and it went on from there...
...Roth's acquaintance with well-known artists has given him some interesting footnotes to his pictures. Samples...