Word: serenas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jolla pays its top stars an Equity minimum wage (lesser names get their regular price), sticks to a modest budget and limits itself to one set per production. But sometimes Hollywood will out. When Jennifer Jones starred last season in Serena Blandish, Angel Selznick insisted on surrounding his favorite actress (later to become his wife) with a cast that included Cinemactor Louis Jourdan and such polished stage veterans as Constance Collier, Mildred Natwick and Reginald Owen. He also insisted on gowns by Jacques Fath and five sets. The show drew capacity crowds throughout its run-and lost several thousand dollars...
Born. To Benjamin Welles, 32, elder son of ex-Diplomat Sumner Welles and New York Timesman in the London bureau, and Cynthia Monteith Welles, 31, ex-wife of Lord Beaverbrook's son Max: their first child, a daughter; in London. Name: Serena. Weight...
...Hindemith. Next night, in Carnegie Hall, George Szell put his Cleveland Orchestra through Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Weber. The critics, who usually find Hindemith dry as toast, found his Metamorphosis gay and charming. In Boston, the same night, the Boston Symphony was playing his Symphonia Serena...
...days later, Bruno Walter and the New York Philharmonic-Symphony gave Symphonia Serena its New York premiere. At week's end, Composer Hindemith, a short and shy man who now heads the music department at Yale, capped it all by conducting his own Hérodiade at a New Friends of Music performance at Manhattan's Town Hall...
Noted for his struggle against totalitarianism in his native Italy, Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro De Bosis Lecturer on the History of Italian Civilization, has been awarded the Serena medal for the most significant contribution to Italian culture in the past two years...