Word: leighs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their first assistant was Edgar Allan Poe; their first book review was J. G. Whittier's report (favorable) on Longfellow's Evangeline. Willis and Morris crammed down the throats of "the upper 10,000" the new works of De Quincey, Swinburne, Leigh Hunt, Victor Hugo, Balzac, George Sand and anyone else they could buy or steal...
King Lear had a shiner. Laurence Olivier, set to play the role in Paris this week, got it in a brawl with a minor Old Vic player who had attacked him, declared Olivier's lawyer, "without any excuse whatever." Wife Vivien Leigh gave the fellow a queenly belt over the head with a poker...
Caesar and Cleopatra. Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains keep Shaw's wit from being buried under several million dollars worth of Technicolored Egypt (TIME...
Caesar and Cleopatra. Shaw's wit, elegantly swapped by Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains, amid several million dollars' worth of Technicolored Egypt (TIME...
Since the U.S. got out of the war and Leigh got out of the Navy, outdoor advertising has boomed again. This year the industry will do a record $100 million worth of business, and Leigh, with signs in 19 cities, will gross over $2 million. His signs now blow real smoke rings, show coffee cups that exude real steam, and a giant box of Super Suds that spouts 5,000 large bubbles a minute. Forthcoming are a three-story soda pop ad in which full glasses will effervesce real balloons, some of which will contain tickets entitling the holder...