Word: agented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Immigration wanted more information on the stowaway. It got a hair-raising reply: "Re telegram 10th. Stowaway Gerhart Eisler, German, disembarking Gdynia." Was it the Gerhart Eisler-the chubby little Comintern agent who had been called the No. 1 U.S. Communist...
...boffola of the Soviet screen is Meeting on the Elbe, and it has everything-American reactionaries, stolen secret formulas, a sexy, blonde FBI undercover agent, music by Shostakovich. Above all, it has a message. So far 2,000,000 Moscow movie fans have seen it; it has packed 22 of the Russian capital's 50 movie theaters...
...single. His brashness, coming from a gawky kid with loving-cup ears, struck most people as intolerable. But Milton and Mom persevered. When he was 21, illness made a vacancy at the New York Palace, vaudeville's top spot, where he had played with Elizabeth several times. An agent booked Milton at $750 a week and discreetly vanished on a cruise. But Milton "fractured 'em," ran for seven weeks and won a firm hold as a headliner...
...Shaw play has influenced both selections for this year. "Amphitryon 38" was played up in the advance publicity as being very sexy, etc., and consequently must have disappointed some patrons. This spring, the HDC took a very daring step it brought in a Hollywood actor and a press agent with a limitless credit account. The amount of money spent on "The Man Who Came to Dinner," is rumored to be up in the 5-digits, but the Club apparently is going to be able to meet its old debts from the profits. If the HDC can begin its new production...
...boarded-up 40-room mansion of the late Financier Payne Whitney, on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, was sold to a real-estate agent who intends to break up its interior into apartments. Millions of moviegoers had seen its white-marble staircase as part of a Southern plantation house in Gone With the Wind, and as part of an English manor in Rebecca...