Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...39th Street entrance came early, and wasn't disappointed. From glossy limousines stepped glossy fine ladies, dragging their tails behind them. The place was fuzzy with ermine, mink, diamonds and dignitaries. There was a shout, "Here comes Lily Pons!" followed by a buzzing ("Yeah? Didn't know she was a blonde"). The Widow Betty Henderson, showoff of cafe society, who got tapped for the front page of all the tabs last year by stretching her 71-year-old leg on a table in the bar, arrived with a raspberry-colored hairdo...
...Manhattan's City Center, he put on Richard Strauss's Salome as a dress rehearsal for his Chicago opening. He wasn't worried. Said Director Halasz: "My kids are like soldiers. They wait for their cue, and then when it is time they sing. They know if they don't sing there will be trouble tomorrow...
...something like it?" Claudia deserved some of the credit for the opening-night success (though the house was not sold out) and a subsequent Carmen (which did sell out). Wrote she: "If we are to have opera on a budget, either visiting or in residence, we may as well know immediately what it is like. Salome indicated that it is vivid, effective, sometimes brilliant, and that it has great promise ... It was a welcome assurance that opera without a Maecenas is not necessarily opera without adventure...
...mother and told her I won it in a dice game. And I gave $10 to my brother . . . And the rest, I-I went out and threw the money away, because I knew I couldn't bring nothing home ... My mother would have wanted to know where I got the money...
...Allen really mean it?* "Uncle Jim" Harkins, his business agent and friend, said: "Honest to God, I don't know. He talks it very convincingly each year...