Word: agent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BERNARD SHAW: COLLECTED LETTERS (1874-1897), edited by Dan H. Laurence. Shaw wrote as compulsively as he talked, and the 691 letters in this volume form a fascinating biography from the age of 17, when he was a Dublin real estate agent's clerk, to the age of 41, when he was on the eve of his first big success, Candida...
Sure enough, when Kauffmann arrived at the theater with 1,100 other ticket holders, he found a dark marquee and a sign that read TONIGHT'S PERFORMANCE CANCELED. Was this an ambush, calculated to embarrass the Times's critic? No, Merrick's press-agent explained: a generator was out of order. That seemed funny: although the marquee was blacked out, the lobby lights were blazing...
...summer place on the Costa del Sol. Still, he rarely gets a chance to stay in one place for long. He has never stopped living well, and indeed, next to his music, he loves traveling best. "If I were not a pianist," he says, "I would be a travel agent." He could also be a professional connoisseur. He owns a fine collection of paintings and 2,000 rare books ("I could cry over a book with a fine binding"). His ties come from Turnbull's in London, his handmade shirts from Barclay's in Paris, his suits from Caraceni...
Died. Harold Freedman, 69, literary agent, a onetime actor who turned in his best performances peddling (for a 10% commission) Broadway shows to Hollywood, including Hello, Dolly! to 20th Century-Fox for $2,000,000, and My Fair Lady to Warner Bros, for $5,500,000 and 47½% of the gross over $20 million-highest price ever paid for movie rights; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Class Comm., East House Agent; Jr. Parents' Weekend Comm., CRIMSON; Radcliffe Quarterly, under-grad. editor; RGA Treasurer; Freshman Class Comm., RGA rep.; Yardling...