Word: leighs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These "flying spectaculars" are the latest venture of Douglas Leigh, 36, a spectacular himself in outdoor advertising. He bought the ships from the Navy for $10,000 each (original cost: $400,000) last year when they were scheduled to be cut up for raincoats. He worked out their present application in his cubbyhole Manhattan office, where the colossal has often been corralled into a blueprint. The dirigibles are visible for five miles at night, can reach an estimated audience of 31,000,000 people, cost advertisers $19,000 a month. Leigh has already bought four more ships, hopes soon...
Lost in the Dark. When the coastal blackout went into effect in April 1942, no one was forced to grope as much as Doug Leigh. Starting with $50 and a case of mumps at the depth of the depression, he had parlayed his native talents of salesmanship, showmanship and inventiveness into an electrified million-dollar business. He owned or operated the biggest single block of the dazzling and ingeniously animated signs along Broadway, when the lights were turned...
...Caesar and Cleopatra. Shaw's wit, elegantly tossed around by Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains, amid several million dollars' worth of Technicolored Egypt (TIME...
Early next year, however, Olivier and his wife Vivien Leigh (who is also panicking London in her husband's rather febrile production of The Skin of Our Teeth) will go to California. Their public explanation of the trip: Olivier wants his wife, who has only recently recovered from tuberculosis, to spend the winter in a mild climate. The likely outcome, considering the modest emoluments of stage glory: one or both will make a movie...
Caesar and Cleopatra. Shaw's wit, elegantly tossed around by Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains, amid several million dollars' worth of Technicolored Egypt (TIME...