Word: diamonditis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spain was happy just to have the ice so firmly broken. Crowed one Spanish negotiator: "If I refuse to do business with a man simply because I don't like his face or manner, I would not change my mind even if he were to give me his diamond ring to back a deal. If I accept, the question of principle is settled...
...Diamond Lil (by Mae West; produced by Albert H. Rosen & Herbert J. Freezer) is probably the masterwork of the unversatile author of Sex, Pleasure Man, The Constant Sinner and Catherine Was Great. As a vehicle, at any rate, Lil remains after 21 years a good sturdy Mae Western. Too dated in 1928 to date much since, and so bad a play that it has considerable merit as a parody, Diamond Lil gives Miss West every chance to shoot the works, to be as majestically unrefined and unreformed as she knows...
Hill Southworth, Earl Torgeson, Red Barrott, and Ray Martin will appear with McInnis when they speak before high school diamond coaches at the Boston Braves Baseball Clinic...
Lend an Ear (sketches, lyrics & music by Charles Gaynor; produced by William R. Katzell, Franklin Gilbert & William Eythe) blossoms out, after a long, wintry start, into a really gay intimate revue. Hailing from the West Coast, it often has a rough-diamond, loud-check sense of fun about it; and can be strenuously youthful as well as unpolished. But it has the greatest of assets for an intimate revue-a satiric eye and sassy tongue; and when it manages to be deft and daft at once, is thoroughly hilarious...
Married. Louis Burt Mayer, 63, durable, diamond-smooth cinemogul (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Loew's, Inc.); and Mrs. Lorena Layson Danker, 41, Hollywood widow; each for the second time (he was divorced last April after 43 years of marriage) ; in Yuma, Ariz...