Word: famous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish to call your attention to quite an error in your International Edition of Jan. 13 re cinema actress Lida Baarova, wife of Gustav Frohlich, in the famous Goebbels slapping incident. Your article states Frohlich has not been heard of since. He is not only alive, but just finished a picture in Berlin, which is at present playing in Theater Wien on Kurfurstendamm. ... I told Frohlich he was dead, but he would not believe me. . . . JOHN F. RENICH...
Chet is also the founder and "grand diapason" of the Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers (TIME, May 25, 1931), formed to combat the impression that all famous men earned their first dollars selling newspapers. He earned his at organ-pumping, and so did such distinguished members (Chet collected about 4,000 at $5 a "diploma") as Ring Lardner, Julius Rosenwald and Jimmy Walker...
Roosevelt & Son held a subdued celebration, in keeping with its high-stooled, high-collared conservatism. Top officers greeted clients and friends at a reception in the New York Yacht Club. Guests received copies of a newly published history of the firm entitled The Strenuous Life, the phrase made famous by the most famed of the Oyster Bay Roosevelts...
...sparkling supporting cast. In what is really the play's most significant role, that of lady Bracknell, Margaret Rutherford tries to create her own interpretation one of saga city rather than more overwhelming personality but she does not seem able to escape completely the characterization by Edith Evans, made famous in London and on records, and she does not, therefore, entirely succeed...
Robert Flemming and Jane Baxter are more than perfect as Algy and Cecily, but the brave attempts of Pamela Brown, miscast in the part of Gwendolyn, are somewhat negated by her unfittingly low voice. The decor by Motley is more than suitable: it rivals the more famous work of Cecil Beaton on this year's "Lady Windermere...