Word: fortnights
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...fortnight before Fieldsend's trial date, Bertie Holliday registered at the Wheatsheaf Hotel, Virginia Water, Surrey, asked to be called at 9 o'clock next morning. When a maid tried to waken him, she found him dead; he had shot himself with a pistol-walking stick. Detectives checked the suicide, found that they had their jewel thief; Fieldsend was Holliday, and Barry had killed Bertie...
...royalty from 15% to 10%. Yielding to the argument that the production would be expensive in view of the two stars' salaries, he cautioned: "I am depending on you not to make your salary list so heavy that the play will have to be taken off in a fortnight unless it attracts capacity every time . . . When negotiating with stars, remember that in my case, I am the star ... So few managers know their own business that I mostly have to make their bargains for them as well...
Ballet had brilliantly proved its right to a permanent home at New York's City Center (TIME, Dec. 12). For a fortnight, the barefoot brethren of the modern dance had been demonstrating their case for adoption...
Last week, as the fortnight came to a close, fans had seen 30 dances by 13 choreographers. It looked as if the modern dancers, too, might be at City Center to stay. As the new City Center Dance Theatre, they were looking forward to another Manhattan season of leaps and lunges in the spring...
...hobby is a hectic pleasure sandwiched in between her old ones. She spends about a fortnight on each picture, working at odd hours in a spare bedroom, her bracelets jangling and her lace peignoir smeared with paint. It irritates her a bit when friends accuse her of painting in a deliberately "naive" way. "I do my best," she says earnestly. "I really...