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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matchmaker, Jake Koci, who has had a busy time trying to find an acceptable bride for Zog, last week breathed a sigh of relief. "It's fine," he declared, "but you know the monarch of a small country such as ours had to be very careful not to get mixed up in international politics through marriage." Confidant Koci's assurance was made with tongue-in-cheek. Zog has long been over his head in international waters. Since 1927 he has been a puppet of Mussolini. Italian non-interest-bearing loans bolster Albanian Government finances, the army is Italian...
...home-sized bed next to him, Seabiscuit occupied one third of the 80-foot horse car* Owner Howard had chartered (for $1,500) for the trip. He watched the scenery through his car windows, walked around for exercise, was carefully fed only water and hay lest he get trainsick. Unlike most thoroughbreds, who are so nervous that they sleep standing up, Seabiscuit relaxed on the hay-covered floor and slept most of the time...
...theatres, experimental theatres, repertory theatres are like frail children. They get the most devoted care, but seldom get any exercise, grow any muscle, gain any weight. In the quarter-century before 1937, Manhattan saw only four such theatres survive adolescence: the Theatre Guild, the Provincetown Hay-house, the Civic Repertory Theatre (thanks to Director Eva Le Gallienne), the Group Theatre (thanks chiefly to Playwright Clifford Odets...
...advance sale of $8,000 finally saw the Mercury through the opening night of Caesar, which all told cost $16,000 to get under way. After that, finances were a pleasure. Today Welles & Houseman own 70% of the Mercury which, sticking to a $2.20 top, has had an average gross of $6,000 a week, an average...
...house (eight rooms and four nooks, $115 a month), the car is secondhand, and the chauffeur exists because Welles himself doesn't drive. Says he: "I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour-and the more frightened I get, the faster I go." At Sneden's Landing-20 miles from Times Square across the Hudson-Welles has for neighbors Katharine Cornell, Columnist Dorothy Thompson ("whom I do not admire"). Welles met his wife, dainty, blonde Virginia Nicolson Welles, while both were acting in a summer drama festival...