Show I Elsa Elsa Maxwells Maxwell's Party Line j The other night when night when you drifted into a night club you noticed a a. girl up there with a a. defiantly challenging body body body-a. a along long and and huge red lips As you looked closer you recognized with amazement this decadent and looking delicious creature wa was J the matter fact wife in Blithe Spirit This ii is a real metamorphosis that would do credit to Mr Ovid himself For beautiful blond blond Paggy Wood has made a study tudy of ot the night nightclub nightclub nightclub club crooners crooner I dont don't deny that the heavy lips lips and and crooning voice has hu sex appeal the she told me the other night when she came off the stage at Monte MonteCarlo MonteCarlo MonteCarlo Carlo where she brought down the house with an entirely new type of nightclub night club entertainment entertain entertain- men ment Most of their torch longs gongs have hav appeal too a a masochistic maso muo- appeal The tortured soul In the white evening dress dren and and heavens heaven I how they nt eat at atit it up I r remember member Peggy from those off far-off days daYI in n London where she created the role in Noel Cowards Coward's Bittersweet She was the quintessence of charm and gay romance She still ia is The years fall off Peggy Peggys pretty shoulders shoulder like well like well like her 1 earth to earth wisecracks She remains almost a unique character In the theater theater theater-a a woman who has hai been married only once To have been happy though married makes you a trifle fabulous Elsa she ahe saidI said laid I know your marriage to Johnny Weaver was waa high Jinks I replied It showed in both your faces face Fun It was everything you read about in boo books It was waa gay riotous exciting It was waa the most thoroughly satisfying ex ex- experience experience a woman could want want- any any woman woman It would have gone on more on-more more or less lesa forever I suppose sup sup- pose P Peggy Woods Wood's eyes have white sparks in them when she ahe talks about Johnny Weaver lIe He was waa a person of great sensitivity sen Sen- understanding understanding and and wit He hadn't a p phoney oney bone in his body He was waa Just as Interested interested interested in In- in Brahma Brahms Brahms-as aa Duke Ellington My son Ion David 15 years old if you please please has has something of Johnnies Johnnie's qualities I T 1 would be celebrating my wedding anniversary If if Johnny were alive altye Lets Let's not any of us ever feel sorry orry for Peggy Wood When ahe she leaves leavea her last lines Unes in the theP P i Jl Noel Coward oward smash hit and goes goa to Monet Carlo in her white whit evening eye eve t ning dress dress she goes gOel to have fun Peggy I asked tell me how do you manage to give such an t I illusion of er er beauty r beauty Do I It Irl But Im I'm glad if its it's it s true I w work rk I have no facials no massages I eat practically I almost never diet I live I live I guess guess Peggy has baa six cards carda in her hercl cl case se Actors' Actors Equity First Aid American Theater Wing War Service Screen Actors' Actors Guild Afra And I asked her Lets Leta hear your personal philosophy It it might have something something some some- thing to do with your keeping your beauty Lets Let see and she gave a certain characteristic Ii 11 little t t tie 1 e chuckle I never bother about what other people think Im I'm basically religious I dont don't go for possessions our possessions our only possessions possessions pos pos- sessions are those who love us u. Without my son son son- son son-I I wouldn't feel that I have anything in the world But my greatest opposition tion Uon-s Uon is against the sterility that exists in the heart some hurt some hearts Press Alliance Inc j i A |