Hermione Gingold I believe was being upstaged by another actress and apparently has (in the play) to place her empty champagne glass on the table- she put a spot of gum underneath the glass and put the glass overhanging the edge of the table- for the rest of the play all eyes were on the glass waiting for it to fall! Wasn't she also the woman that met a famous writer who had used the word "fudge" in his book as a swear word and said to him "So you are the young man that can't spell fuck"? Eric