Word: heiresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clift recently finished his third picture, William Wyler's The Heiress. Now he is committed to Liberty Films, a Paramount subsidiary, for three more (which must be directed by Wyler, Frank Capra or George Stevens). Meanwhile, he is free to accept offers from Broadway, where he is also in great demand. One offer is for Lillian Hellman's forthcoming dramatization of the best-selling The Naked and the Dead. Clift doesn't know whether he'll do it : he hasn't seen the script...
Born. To Henry Benjamin ("Hank") Greenberg, 37, the Detroit Tigers' onetime home-run king, now part owner and vice president of the Cleveland Indians, and Caral Gimbel Greenberg, 32, department store heiress: their second child, second son; in Manhattan. Name: Christopher. Weight...
...clients had money trouble, too. Last week, the U.S.'s best ballet company, Ballet Theatre, also called it quits for 1948. In its nine seasons, Ballet Theatre toured the U.S., produced brilliant and expensive new ballets. Most of the deficits had been made up by Director Lucia Chase (heiress of a carpet fortune), who also danced leading roles in the company. Her estimated loss so far: $2,000,000. Ballet Theatre would start up again perhaps next year, said Miss Chase, but only if someone else came forward with a little money...
Georges du Mesnil de la Tour lived in the 17th Century, in a quiet town deep in the Duchy of Lorraine. There he married an heiress, and probably using his family as models, painted his life away. He sold a few canvases to the Dukes of Lorraine. Once, when Louis XIII marched into the Duchy in the midst of a plague, La Tour presented him with his Saint Sebastian in the Night. The king removed all other paintings from his room (perhaps, one historian suggests, because he hoped Saint Sebastian would protect him from the plague...
Married. Mary Ellin Berlin, 21, brunette daughter of Songwriter Irving Berlin and Postal Telegraph Heiress-Novelist Ellin Mackay (Lace Curtain) Berlin; and Dennis Sheedy Burden, 28, Newport and Manhattan socialite; in Manhattan...