Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...composer and so was her father, who in 1835 won the Prix de Rome. Her grandmother was a famous singer at the Opera-Comique and her mother a Russian princess. Nadia herself won prizes in every subject she studied at the Paris Conservatory, topped it off with the second Grand Prix de Rome...
...yarn. Stone set him to writing a Tuesday-through-Friday local column. It turned out to be a wise and whimsical journal about the odd corners of Seattle life, with tales of seamy Skidroad characters, the scavengers on the city dumps and such old Seattle landmarks as the once-grand Globe Hotel. Seattle took the new columnist to its heart. His prizewinning column was typical: a half-bitter, half-sentimental piece about Memorial Day in Victory Square, where a wooden imitation of the Washington Monument lists King County's 1,300 war dead. The Square's "eternal...
...very possibly The Eagle Has Two Heads is full of brilliant rhetoric, in French. But on Broadway it is just a grimly gaudy bore. Nor, for all her fire and force, can Actress Bankhead act it the one way that might be effective-with high artifice, in the immensely grand manner...
...boom in Guest Stars was on. Eight of last week's 15 most popular radio shows had at least one guest star. Altogether, the four networks carried more than 100 of them. For their Hooper-boosting services, they were paid a grand total of about $100,000. Individual guests pulled down as much as $3,500 in New York and $5,000 in Hollywood (perhaps because of the high cost of swimming pools) in cash, cars, refrigerators and whatnot...
...Floaters-famed entertainers with no radio shows of their own (Al Jolson, Tallulah Bankhead, Bea Lillie) who don't mind picking up a few grand on someone else's. Jolson is currently the most-hitched-to star in radio. He recently upped Bing Crosby's Hooper 4.9 points, boosted Eddie Cantor's a full 5. Offered a show of his own, Jolson declined: he can make too much money guesting-with no worries over script and sponsor. At week's end, Jolson signed for ten appearances on the Crosby show next fall-$50,000 guaranteed...