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wood dolls as Marlene Dietrich and Joan Crawford. Romantic roles started. Her last Hollywood effort, though, was her best—as the spouse of a rascal bigamist - killer in Charlie Chaplin’s “Monsieur Verdoux.” She Got The Business Before TV Martha performed at Miami’s Five O’Clock Club, which she still owns with ex-hubby Nick Condos and Norman Schylur. “It was the roughest work of all,” says Condos. “When Martha went home, everybody went home. So if we wanted business she had to be on the job.” Martha’s life is calmer now. Four times married and divorced, she lives in a Westport, Conn., home with her daughter Melodye, 9, a maid and a secretary. Her one pastime, television, is a passion with her from morning till the Late Late Show signs off. Her own TV rehearsals find Martha decked out in blue jeans rolled to the knees, a tight fitting sweater, size 40, long woolen stockings and moccasins, size four. The cover-all for this get- up is an ankle-length mink coat. Working with Milton Berle, a mar¬ tinet during rehearsals, Martha shows Uncle Miltie an irreverence that could only spring from their own reverence for each other. When Berle postures, Martha waddles to the other side of the stage and mimics him. But Martha, She’s Different “She’s the only one who could get away with it on the Berle show,” re¬ marked one observer. “The guy is nuts about her. She pulled the same stuff with Charlie Chaplin. And be¬ lieve me, Chaplin is a lot rougher to handle than Berle. But Martha— well, she’s different. It could be that these guys might just feel she’s got more talent than they’ve got. Who knows?” —Tom O'Malley Let's face it: Martha's boisterous mugging is unmatched in TV or anywhere else. 17