Word: co-star
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...female lead, as an example. A few weeks before the play was scheduled to go into rehearsal, it was still without a heroine. Even Theodore P. Allegretti '49 who plays Mio, the male lead, and before the war a Shakespearian thespian, was on the lookout for a suitable co-star...
James A. Stillman, late National City Banker, heir to millions, and co-star of one of the gamiest divorce suits of the '20s, turned out to have died deep in debt. Stillman and wife "Fifi" charged each other with offside parenthood-she by an Indian guide, he by a chorus girl. She got the divorce, promptly married Harvester Heir Fowler McCormick. A New York estate tax appraisal last week: Stillman owned $875,745, owed $1,079,539. Notable debt: $362,848 to the four Stillman children for their support...
...latest by Shostakovich, who is co-star of Soviet music with Serge Prokofieff, is a "Victory" symphony, to complete his war trilogy which began with the brassy, repetitious Seventh ("Leningrad"). It has an unorthodox five instead of four movements, but is shorter (25 minutes) than most symphonies. Shostakovich, who wrote it in ten weeks after three false starts, was afraid his frail little Ninth would not stand up against Beethoven's great Ninth ("a frightening responsibility") or the critics. "They'll say, 'We expected something grandiose from you and you are giving us a lark.' " Reported...
...herself ("I've always had to sneak in and make good"). She got her first radio break as a guest on Rudy Vallee's Village Store in 1941, was enough of a hit to be hired as a regular. Then Vallee joined the Coast Guard and Co-Star John Barrymore died. Everybody, including the sponsor, thought the program would collapse with just Joan Davis to hold it up. Instead, its popularity climbed. Last year Hooper for some time rated it the No. 6 attraction...
Humphrey Bogart, Hollywood's favorite Dead End kid (45), made it official: he will marry slow-burning Cinemactress Lauren Bacall, 20, his co-star in two pictures (To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep). When: as soon as his third wife, Mayo ("Sluggy") Methot, serves her six weeks Reno residence for a divorce. Where: the Ohio farm of friend Louis Bromfield...