Word: lillian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They surrounded themselves with some of the greatest names of the stage, among them, Lillian Russell, DeWolf Hopper and David Warfield. For every serious success other producers had, Weber & Fields turned out a broad and successful burlesque. They matched Du Barry with Du Hurry, Quo Vadis with Whoa Vass Iss?, Cyrano de Bergerac with Cyranose. Whatever the title, Weber & Fields remained the same. Lew Fields tried to explain, Joe Weber couldn't understand. Joe Weber disgraced himself, Lew Fields hit him over the head...
...worth of silver bricks. Then the end of the mining rush left Central City nearly deserted. Its resurrection began when descendants of the original builder gave the Opera House to the University of Denver. The theater was refurbished, its hickory chairs restored, and the curtain went up on Lillian Gish in Camille, designed and directed by Robert Edmond Jones...
...Hara) remarried his former wife, 25 years after they were first wed. ∽∽ Rosalind Russell, Hollywood's No. 1 Bachelor Girl, denied plans to elope with Agent Frank Brisson, denied still more emphatically that she was 34 and Brisson ten years younger, ∽∽ Torchsinger Lillian Roth won an annulment of her marriage to Manhattan Importer Eugene Weiner on the ground that he had misrepresented the character of his past. Month ago he drew a six-month jail sentence for blacking...
...faced Comedian Harry Langdon's ex-wife asked a California court to O.K. a $60,584 judgement for unpaid support, previously granted in New York....Dorothy Lamour left for Hawaii on the same boat with friend Gregson Bautzer; both denied they'd marry in Hawaii....Torch Singer Lillian Roth's husband drew six months in jail for blacking her eye; she said he had also broken her jaw while courting her....Peggy Shannon's husband shot himself sitting in the same chair in which the redheaded ex-Follies beauty was found mysteriously dead last month. They...
...York Drama Critics' Circle, polling its annual vote for the season's best American play, last week got into its usual politico-dramatic wrangle. On the first ballot nine votes (a three-quarters plurality, or 15 votes, was needed to win) went to Lillian Hellman's passionate, anti-Nazi Watch on the Rhine (TIME, April 14). Next came three votes for William Saroyan's dreamy The Beautiful People (see below), which had opened the night before...