Word: owned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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To Arizona-born Stan, who had figured on retiring with a modest pension at 50, Riders will probably bring about $30,000. And Stan has more songs on the griddle. One is called Whirlwind, and his publishers are puffing it as "just as good as Riders." The ranch of his...
Stan took the tip. The first publisher who heard Riders told him it sounded too much like a "funeral dirge or a college hymn." (Actually, its opening sounded more like the first few steps of When Johnny Comes Marching Home.) He kept plugging, finally recorded Riders and some of his...
Like Cranach, Titian had taken his pick in the Greek Pantheon, but had added a sumptuousness of his own. His Venus and the Lute Player made the goddess look more human than divine, for his brush managed to suggest the blood beneath the opalescent skin and to impart a warmth...
Cash Deal. A slight, weatherbeaten man of 49, Farrell realized a longtime ambition last season when he got a chance to put up all the money for the musicomedy Hold It!. Most of Manhattan's reviewers panned the show, but Farrell, who knows what he likes, wanted to keep...
That could be fixed. Angel Farrell paid a lump-sum $1,300,000 for the Warner Theater ("a cash deal is best") and closed Hold It! until he could reopen it in his own property. He shelled out $200,000 to make the house the town's plushiest and...