Word: max
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...professional career started under the cold, sharp eye of the great Max Reinhardt. On the recommendation of a friend of a friend, Reinhardt hired her as understudy to the understudy of Hermia in his 1934 Hollywood Bowl production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. True to the old backstage plot tradition, the first-string Hermia got a movie offer, the second-stringer fell ill, and Olivia took the part. Movie Producer Henry Blanke, who dropped in on one of the rehearsals, noticed her. He thought she would be right for Hermia in the movie version of Dream which...
Both "Joe" and Max Keezer stand ready to absorb miscellanies so that the back-against-the-wall undergraduate may find enough money to take care of all those relatives. And the careful pick and choose, once-in-a-lifetime shopper might find a choice bric or brac if he investigates carefully...
...hostess to the Vice President-elect was filled. Possibly spurred on by applications from eager ladies ("I didn't know whether they wanted to marry me or hire out to me"), Alben Berkley named his daughter, Mrs. Max Truitt...
Every Man a King. Last week New York Star Columnist Max Lerner took a wincing look at the good fortune that radio's cornucopia had showered on the family of Edward Easton, an unemployed jewelry salesman of Attleboro, Mass. Mrs. Easton had correctly named a tune on ABC's Stop the Music. Wrote Lerner...
Bravo! (by Edna Ferber & George S. Kaufman; produced by Max Gordon) is about a group of distinguished Middle European refugees who share a shabby Manhattan brownstone. An archduchess turned dressmaker, a Habsburg turned salesman, a jurist peddling candy, a ballet dancer spewing venom, a famous playwright and actress (Oscar Homolka & Lili Darvas) on their uppers-they are bitter and sweet, grumbling and gallant, some taking misfortune in their stride, some wearing Budapest on their sleeve. In time most of them find their mate or their metier; while those whom the immigration authorities threaten with tragedy are saved by a phone...