Word: boulevards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels' house gutted, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop's house gone. Gone was the British Embassy, gone Reich Marshal Hermann Gb'ring's proud, blocklike Air Ministry. Destroyed were the U.S. and French Embassies at the head of Unterden Linden; the famous boulevard itself was an avenue of rubble. In the Prinz Albrechtstrasse Gestapo headquarters were badly damaged. Professor Albert Speer's Ministry of Armaments and Munitions was gutted at one end, badly burned throughout...
...week) without wanting to play in any. His passion is Shakespeare (to understand the peculiar relationship of Othello and Iago, Carradine at first alternated in both roles); he got his first movie job because Cecil B. De Mille heard him spouting Hamlet as he tramped Hollywood Boulevard looking for work. For his present nationwide venture, Carradine sold his yacht and mortgaged his house. He is his own producer, director and sole owner as well as star. Says he: "That's the only way to do Shakespeare, for good or evil, so that it hangs together. If this goes over...
...high period of poster art was celebrated last week in Manhattan. Hanging on the Norlyst Gallery walls were some 37 of the bold-hued works which peeled off Parisian litho-stones in the '80s and '90s and plastered the boulevard kiosks of those gaudy decades...
Died. Arthur Farnsworth, 36, aeronautical-parts executive, husband of Screen Tragedienne Bette Davis; two days after he dropped unconscious on Hollywood Boulevard, two months after a head-banging fall downstairs; in Hollywood...
Sixth Avenue merchants rekindled their prewar dreams that started when the old rattletrap elevated railway was torn down, and plans were drawn for a broad treelined boulevard, to be called the "Avenue of the Americas," designed to outswank swanky Fifth Avenue...