While investigating a robbery, they encounter a saucy dame, played by Ida Lupino, to whom Mr. Cochran takes a shine.
The old dame played with distinctly less heart and composure than in the 1-0 defeatoto Dortmund the week before.
Their annual plans for a fund-raising concert, held on Verdi's birthday, are disrupted by the arrival of a down-on-her-luck grande dame (played by Maggie Smith, the "Downton Abbey," "Gosford Park" and "Harry Potter" star).
In "The Front Page," the Broadway hit of 1928 about shameless newspapermen, Hildy Johnson, the star reporter, was very much a guy, and yet, when Howard Hawks took a pop at the story, in 1940, Hildy became a dame, played by Rosalind Russell.
The resulting garden is so spectacular that it attracts the interest and admiration of a celebrity gardener, Georgina Woodhouse, a grande dame played with a posh accent and huge, flowered hats by Helen Mirren.
Ashton based this comic role -- a prosperous widow who tries to arrange her daughter's marriage -- on a stock female character, the dame, played by a man in British pantomime tradition.
On this week's episode, Kurt Chriss Colfer and Rachell got their shot to audition before NYADA's grand dame (played by Whoopi Goldberg), and while Kurt impressed the harsh critic, Rachel choked.
She is referring, of course, to "Desperate Housewives" mastermind Marc Cherry, who created Bree and the dishy dames played by Cross' costars Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Eva Longoria and Nicollette Sheridan.
Little Tich left for America in the early months of 1887 and assumed his first role for Pastor in a burlesque version of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, playing the lead character for a fee of £10 a week.
It seems to play the part in his psyche that, say, Dame Edna plays for Barry Humphries.
Dame Maggie plays the homeless woman who lived on Bennett's driveway for 15 years.
