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Earl WilsonOur Constantly Changing Similies AreProving Unkind To Our WomenNew York — Time tear* on — as is beautifully illustrated in the changing fashions in similes.“He ate like he was going to the electric chair” or “he ate like the Russians were in the Bronx” have been Broadway and Hollywood sparklers for some years.Lana Turner, Jane Russell. Mane McDonald and other sweater girls long ago inspired theclassic;• •odern girls are shaped its top drawer pulled out.”The trend is toward greater candor concerning the ladies. 1 heard a woman described as being “as mouthy as the Mississippi” while another lady was said to “have lips like rubies . . . Rubirosa’s.”Mark Twain’s “as comfortable a* a toothache**seems mild now. So does Bob Davis* “as beautifulDespite all these, good similes today seem as rare as poor Texans.THE MIDNIGHT EARL . . .^ pretty young B’way stage star of anothershow may not know what Marion Colby, recently of “Pajama Game,” has said about her in her divorce action. The star was “tailed,, by sleuths . . . Marilyn Monroe’s “gone New York,” and is apt.-hunting. She helped Milton H. Greene’s wifeAmv give him a surprise party for his 33rd birthday. Her agents and her studio begin seriousback-to-work renegotiations any day.Broadway favorites to win stage Tonies Mar. 27 include Mary Martin. Cyril Ritchard, Whiter Slezak, Carol Haney, and Nancy KeUy, but nobody’ll talk ... The Emmy TV Awards signed up Hal Friedman to get NY to cooperate ... AtLucky Pierre s: Grace Kelly and Bud Palmer.
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Doylestown Daily Intelligencer
Doylestown, Pennsylvania, US
Tue, Mar 22, 1955
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