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Theater de Lys (capacity 299) recently hit its stride with Leslie Stevens' $10,000 hit production, Bullfight, with a three man stage crew and $25-a-week actors. Current tenant: The Threepenny Opera...
...goodbyes were said with many tears by $10,000-a-week Imogene ("It's a sad event−I'm sorry it's happened"), a few tears by Liebman ("These things are natural developments in show business"), and none at all by $25,000-a-week Caesar, who observed: "To me, it's a really heartbreaking thing. But when a star starts to grow, there comes a time when a star must go on by itself." Producer Liebman, looking at the photographers, said to both of his stars: "Let's all smile...
...grandson of stable owners. The family moved to St. Louis, and when Grant was 15, his father killed himself, leaving Grant's mother to make ends meet by teaching dancing. Harry Grant quit high school after his freshman year, went to work as a $5-a-week railway messenger. He was earning $60 a month as a ticket clerk when he quit to make more as a bookkeeper and cattle checker in Swift & Co.'s stockyards. He bought schoolbooks and studied at night, and by the time he was 22, he had saved enough money to enter Harvard...
...year-old Industrialist John R. Winter, fired the persuasive Brazilian. According to John, Sabino forthwith threatened to "pump me full of hot lead," and made John write off all debts on the clothes, TV set and car, and on top of that had the gall to demand a $100-a-week salary for life...
Meek little Jimmy Alcock, 54, was always a man to avoid trouble. But trouble sought him out at the Lancashire aircraft works, where he was a $25-a-week semiskilled laborer. When Britain's engineering (i.e., machinists') unions called a nationwide one-day "token" strike, Jimmy wondered what to do. He did not be long to the engineering union, and his own General and Municipal Workers union was not involved in the strike. He asked his union what to do. He was told to go to work as usual, and Jimmy did. He was the only...