Word: partner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stars & Garters. The supreme commander behind U.S.O.'s army of entertainers is chunky, chubby Abe Lastfogel, 47. Affable Abe, who worked his way up from office boy to senior partner of show business' Wm. Morris Agency, was asked to organize U.S.O.-Camp Shows...
Fresh from the lead in "Keys of the Kingdom," Gregory Peck appears as the logical, and similar, successor to Walter Pidgeon as Greer Garson's (Mary Rafferty) partner in marriage. Lionel Barry more is his usual explosive self as vindictive Pat Rafferty, while Donald crisp performs competently as a sympathetically presented steel magnate...
Next, Dominion Status. The stakes were greater than India itself, for they included the Empire and the world. The Wavell Plan was the first step toward Dominion status. When that was accomplished, India would become an equal partner in the Commonwealth, free (if she so desired) to secede from the Crown. Was Britain not risking "the brightest jewel of the British Crown?" Indians were not Britons linked by ties of blood and sentiment to the islands in the distant northern...
Massine booked half of the road performances in open-air stadiums where the potential box office exceeds $10,000. (Just to be on the safe side, he also took in as business partner Y. D. Scales, a Fort Worth auto dealer, whose daughter, pert Kathryn Lee, a musicomedy dancer, wanted to be a highbrow ballerina.) Said Massine, flushed with the opening success of Highlights: "My conception of repertoire is the same as that of chamber music in relation to symphony. ... I feel I am restoring some of the basic elements of Russian ballet. . . . Today ballet has become, with big companies...
...though occasionally arty, it has snatches of ramshackle realism. The picture also had an unusually able scenarist, Funnyman Nunnally Johnson, who never hesitates to throw away a tense scene when he can think of a gag. Sample: finding a murdered body on his hands, Melody Jones asks what his partner means by the phrase corpus delicti. Answer: "It means if they got a corpus, you're delict...