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...grey-haired comic cliché-The Innocent Abroad-and come up with the best light comedy of the year. Jeannie McLean, a sharp-chinned, homely-pretty Scottish country girl, 26 and single, decides before she buries herself in domestic service, to squander her father's "entire fortune" (a bequest of ?297-$1,188) on a trip to Vienna. She wants to hear The Blue Danube "played at the source." Aboard the Channel packet she meets a celluloid-collared washing-machine inventor from Yorkshire with plenty of British brass and some neolithic French and German ("Swy tay, bitta").* The flying...
This group is the sixth to be awarded fellowships under the bequest of over a million dollars of Agnes Wahl Nieman, widow of the late Lucius W. Nieman, founder and publisher of the Milwaukee Journal...
Nioman Fellowships, usually about twelve a year, have been offered during the past five years at Harvard under the bequest of Agnes Wahl Nieman, widow of the late Lucius W. Nieman. Publisher of the Milwaukee Journal given "to etc. vate and promote the standards of your nalism in America" Harvard has applied the Nieman funds to the support of annual Fellowships to working newspaper men for a year's study on leave from their papers. A fellowship pays the salary of the man during his leave form his. Until now the Fellowships have permitted work in any department...
...colleagues backed out, left him holding the bag. In the bag was nominal ownership of the Opera House, the adjoining market, nine other theaters, and an unpaid bill for $15,000,000. Having achieved this stroke of financial wizardry, Joseph Beecham died and left the magic to Tommy. The bequest kept Thomas Beecham in & out of English bankruptcy courts for nearly 20 years. But he kept producing opera in Covent Garden, managing the vegetable market on the side. His near bankruptcies in real estate deterred his musical expenditures not a whit. He soon lost a good $5,000,000 producing...
After the Armistice he returned to the U.S., wrote Hitchy-Koo, 1919, then doubled back to Europe. There he married fashionable, Louisville-bred Linda Lee Thomas, and with the help of a $1,000,000 (coal mines, timberland) bequest from a grandfather, plunged into post-war international society at its gaudiest. The Porters' Paris ménage had a room done up in platinum; their Venetian palazzo, once inhabited by the Brownings, was the scene of fabulous parties featuring Porter's crony Edgar Montillion (Monty) Woolley. Porter invented an American couple named Fitch and stuffed the society columns...