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...longest role in the play belongs, not to one of the three, but to snub-nosed English Ingénue Musgrove. * Actress Anderson's pet story concerns the shy Garbo's inspecting Miss Anderson's California home with a view to renting it. Garbo inquired how often the gardener came, was told "every day." Said Garbo, exiting: "Too often...
This is no Henry Kaiser outfit. This is just a hell of a swell team and we're cany-ing the ball. That...
...check. The gags are frightful. The lyrics are forced. Composer Green (Body & Soul, I'm Yours) has turned out one or two lusty tunes, and gone to town with Steam Is on the Beam, but his score is on the whole unexciting. Finally, though pert, attractive Ingénue Miller is a promising newcomer to Broadway theater, the cast contains none of those accomplished showmen who can amiably bully the audience into thinking that pink is green...
...less than a year ago that Tobe learned he had really clicked. That was the hot August day when he had a phone call from Willys-Overland Vice President Delmar ("Barney") Roos, ask ing "What in hell is this thing we've got to put on our vehicles now?" "This thing" was Tobe's new "Filterette" and the "vehicles" were 18,000 Willys jeeps. Now, by Army specifications, all tactical vehicles, including tanks, must be equipped with his Filterettes—and Tobe Deutschmann expects his 1942 sales to hit $5,000,000, 50 times what he grossed...
...shipped to the U.S. by his parents when he was nine, was managing actors at 17. In his early years as a co-producer with F. Ray Comstock he presented some 50 shows, among them the fleshly Aphrodite, the gaudy Chu-Chin-Chow and Mecca. Wild-eyed, wild-dream-ing, moody, self-dramatizing (he affected long hair, curvaceous hats, a Windsor tie), he was famed for damning the expense (he spent more than $600,000, most of it borrowed, producing The Miracle, went bankrupt when it folded in Dallas). At various times he represented Eleanora Duse, Geraldine Farrar, Mary Garden...