Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...general in the French theater. The biggest stars earn no more than $40 a night; the star of the state-controlled Odeon earns $40 a month; bit parts fetch $2 or $3 a performance. The notorious morality of the French stage rests partly on the fact that many an actress resorts to classic means to keep alive...
...Bernard Shaw; produced by Katharine Cornell in association with Gilbert Miller) has come to seem, with the years, almost as much Katharine Cornell's property as Bernard Shaw's. As the radiant lady fought over by the prating parson she married and the mewling poet she bewitched, Actress Cornell long ago found one of her most triumphant roles. Last week she was playing it on Broadway for the fourth time, and playing it well. But the cast surrounding her was not the one whose brilliant teamwork made the previous revival, in 1942, a real event. Hence what came...
Byron at 45. Thirteen years before Dickens' death he became obsessed by the belief that at 45 he was "capable of loving a young girl in the same idealistic whole-souled way that he had once adored Maria Beadnell." The object of his passion was fair-haired Actress Ellen Ternan, whom Dickens discovered backstage modestly weeping because her role obliged her "to show so much leg." Dickens established Ellen in a house near London. His daughter Katey wrote: "More tragic and far-reaching in its effect was the association of Charles Dickens and Ellen Ternan and their resultant...
Dear Diary. In London, Actress Hermione Gingold discreetly overlooked the theft of her ration book, furs, dresses and whiskey, appealed for the return of her diary, because "it has telephone numbers essential to my plans...
Jacques Deval, 54, French dramatizer of drawing-room gaieties and boudoir confusions (Her Cardboard Lover, Tovarich, Boudoir), was sued for "adequate" separate maintenance in Manhattan by Actress-Wife Else Argall, 30. She charged that he got his boudoirs confused, had told her his gaieties were "necessary in order to stimulate his creative talents as a writer...