Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he liked an actress' work he used to say: "She gives me a lump." Being a sentimentalist, he was the natural companion of George M. Cohan. He met Mr. Cohan at a picnic in 1904, and before the day was over made him a producing partner. The partnership lasted 16 years and gave Broadway 50 shows. The first was Little Johnny Jones, and in it George Cohan sang for the first time Give My Regards to Broadway and The Yankee Doodle...
Married. Poet-Critic William Rose Benet, 55, onetime husband of the late Poet Elinor Wylie; and Marjorie Flack, 43, children's writer and illustrator; he, for the fourth time; in Newtown, Conn. His marriage to Actress Lora Baxter ended in divorce...
Responsible for dreaming up Latitude Zero is a thin, bespectacled wag named Ted Elton Sherdeman, whose wife, a veteran radio actress, assists him. Nobody is more amused by Latitude Zero than Ted Sherdeman. During rehearsals, which are gagged up to the limit by the cast, he sits amiably giggling at his delirious brain child. He is fond of such tricks as introducing a kind of Latin double-talk for his eerier characters. Sample: Fora consumatio est ramus malin rite confedo saluero. The show was put on a coast-to-coast hookup after 17 weeks on a local circuit...
Married. Wealthy Lucy Cotton Thomas Ament Hann Magraw, 49; for the second time to her fifth husband, Georgian Prince Vladimir Eristavi-Tchitcherine, 59; in a Russian Orthodox ceremony in Manhattan (they had a civil ceremony May 4 in Key West). A onetime actress, she quit the stage in 1924 to wed aging Publisher Edward R. Thomas, inherited a slice of his reputed $27,000,000 fortune when he died in 1926. Since then she has married and divorced Hoover-aide Lytton Gray Ament, Harvard Tackle Charles Hann Jr., Hotelman William M. Magraw...
...scurries to her ancestral Southern home after learning that a Broadway director (night-blooming Don Ameche) is Dixie-bound to scour the South for a sure-nuf Southern belle to play the lead in a Broadway musicomedy. She gets the job after butting into a swimming pool a rival actress with a very high cruising speed...