Word: arens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much money Welles is making he will not say. He is not even sure he knows. His habit at the Mercury is to draw "what he needs" from the box onice usually, the box office reports, some $200 a week. Houseman does the same. Says Welles: "Houseman and I aren't making enough money to cheat each other...
...hundreds of high schools. He pieced What a Life together out of youngsters and incidents encountered all over the U. S. Says he of Henry Aldrich: "There's a lot of myself in him." Says he of Henry's mentors, whom he refused to pillory: "Most teachers aren't picklepusses...
TIME was using "vulgar" to indicate a hearty British, not a self-conscious U. S. phenomenon. Fortnight ago from Capri Miss Fields telephoned the London Daily Express regarding TIME'S story. Sensibly, good-humored-ly she commented: "The customers are satisfied, aren't they? Besides, I'm not vulgar. When I'm trying not to be vulgar, everybody tells me off. I don't care what they say about me. People who see me like me. That's all that matters. I just go on in my own sweet way. My act has changed...
Both waded through the menu with vigor. Sure helps the appetite, one observed. Yeh, and breaks up a cold quickly too when your lungs aren't all congested, added the other. They paused after their coffee and stared at one another intently. You're looking better, said the one. Yes, and you look healthier, too, agreed his partner, glancing at a friend blowing smoke rings at the next table. The other looked too. Yes, it's better this way, he said without conviction. They exchanged understanding looks...
...Author- Frederick Lonsdale is a 57-year-old Englishman who has written 24 plays. But it was not till 1923, with Aren't We All?, that he made a real hit on Broadway. He conceives all his plays as tragedies, writes them all as comedies, because in comedy "you can tell a much deeper story. That's why Shaw wrote comedies...