Word: maes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ratification, its Columbia Artists. Inc. to Music Corporation of America for a reputed $250,000. NBC was dickering to unload for the reputed same amount its Program Talent Sales and Concerts Division on William Morris Agency, Inc., oldest genius-peddling house in the U.S., which can supply anything from Mae West to trained mules...
Died. Oliver Marsh, 49, veteran cameraman, brother of oldtime Cinemactress Mae Marsh; in Hollywood...
...star who really strutted her antique stuff was Mae Murray. Her platinum blondness and pouting "bee-stung" lips first got rave notices in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1908. One of the wildest waltzes in cinema history was her fling with John Gilbert in The Merry Widow in 1925. Since then she has fluctuated between a fortune of $3,000,000 and, she claims, nights on a park bench...
Last week at the Diamond Horseshoe, Mae Murray again began dancing the Merry Widow waltz, with Georges Fontana of the sleek '20s dancing team of Moss & Fontana. The featherweight toast of the 1908 Follies has long since moved into the middleweight division, but as she swooped, swirled and was flung through the air the house came down, and Billy Rose knew that he had a waltzing hit and the nostalgic smash of his career...
...dull night when at least one girl doesn't phone for the number of "Bill--I didn't catch his last name, but he had a crew cut and one front tooth missing. He was a divine dancer, and I thought you might be able. . . ." Most of these Daisy Mae's are doomed to disappointment; though once one recognized her acquaintance after the obliging operator had read the last names of all the Yardlings up to the T's. Occasionally at an early hour of the morning--sometimes by long distance and once from Oklahoma City--some old grad, determined...