Word: brice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fanny Brice, his exwife, has said that "Billy's got a seven-track mind," and a friend calls him "one of the few men I know who has learned anything after 35." Billy's greatest aid in the learning process is a sort of photographic brain capable of almost total recall. Pressagent Dick Maney believes that Billy remembers every good gag he has ever heard: "When I first knew Billy, he had only one figure of speech-everything was like the inside of Earl Carroll's stomach. Then it got so I could tell...
...Billy met Fanny Brice and promptly began his courtship by writing her a vaudeville act. Two years later they were married. Fanny had long been Broadway's No. 1 comedienne; to her flock of friends, Billy was just "Mr. Brice," a noisy little guy who carried drinks and got underfoot. Billy began looking around for an equalizer. In 1930, he decided to become a Broadway producer...
...Bantam Barnum." Billy Rose's skyrocket career as a showman began with a miserable fizzle called Corned Beef & Roses. Desperately, he rewrote it, renamed it Sweet & Low. Though it had Fanny Brice in some of the original Baby Snooks routines (which Billy wrote), it thudded again. Billy rewrote the show a second time, renamed it Crazy Quilt, and took it on the road. Billed as "A Saturnalia of Wanton Rhythm Featuring Exotic Divertissements," Crazy Quilt played to packed houses at almost every stop. In nine months, Rose recouped his $75,000 outlay and made $240,000 clear profit...
...time Jumbo finally opened, after six months of rehearsals, it had cost Whitney a lot more. Though it was a hit, it never paid for itself. But it did put Billy Rose on the map as a showman. It put him, specifically, in Fort Worth, Tex., which hired "Mr. Brice" at $1,000 a day to stage its 1936 Frontier Centennial...
President Truman's plea for voluntary price reductions has received but a lukewarm response in the Harvard Square area. Of 15 local merchants polled in a CRIMSON survey, the only one to comply completely with President Truman's request was Brice's Sporting Goods Store; which announced yesterday "an across the board cut of 10 percent on every item in the house...