Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. Daisy-eyed Cinemactress Luise Rainer, 30, twice winner of Hollywood's Academy Award; from Playwright Clifford Odets, 33 (Waiting jor Lefty, Golden Boy)] after three years of marriage, one reconciliation; in Los Angeles...
Wiley began his homey radio career on Los Angeles' station KNX by forming the Housewives' Protective League. Starting with a 30-minute, salaryless spot, he chatted away for six months, was just about ready to turn his time over to soap operas when Golden State Creamery signed up for two weeks, ended by staying 20 months. He now has a second program, Sunrise Salute, 24 accounts each paying $275 a week for one plug daily...
...when a masterful director like Alfred Hitchcock and actors as capable as Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine do their best to make a tencent novelette plot credible, they produce an unwonted effect--that of serving cold stew on a golden platter. Hollywood's skillful technique has given a backneyed melodrama a chance to excite once again...
Died. Luisa Tetrazzini, 68, most sensational coloratura soprano of opera's Golden Age, whose effortless bell-clear high F# made musical history; after a long illness complicated by grippe; in Milan. She never recovered from a cerebral hemorrhage last February, and for several days before her death was able to take no nourishment except an occasional sip of champagne...
...GOLDEN ASHES-Freeman Wills Crofts-Dodd, Mead ($2). Inspector French bumbles through arson and murder in a complicated case stemming from the unsuccessful transmogrification of a plain Chicago citizen into a baronet in Surrey...