Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seamed mountains around Leadville, Colo, men hacked millions of dollars of quick wealth for almost two generations. Leadville's ramshackle streets were lined with saloons, dance halls, "wine theaters," brothels. Lucky miners became millionaires overnight, tossed silver dollars at stage girlies in red tights, brawled, gambled, built gingerbread palaces on the hill. Leadville had its ups & downs - gold in the '60s ; silver-rich carbonate ores that made the Carbonate Kings in the '70s; the Little Johnny and other gold-mine workings in the '90s. By 1933, however, most of the zinc, lead and silver mines were...
...Jeannie's purse in charge, is as real as hers. Michael Redgrave is equally sound as the Englishman. The personnel of Vienna's Hotel Splendide is good enough to have come out of Bemelmans. But the real weight of Jeannie is carried (like a feather) by British Stage Actress Barbara Mullen, the clothes she wears, the lines she handles so delicately, while she turns old-maidishness into a surprised, nascent loveliness. "We never speak about sex in Scotland, Mr. Smith," Jeannie says primly. But Miss Mullen needs no lines. If there were more actresses as good...
...Robeson graduated from the Columbia Law School, was offered a job in an excellent law office, gave it up because of possible racial complications. Said Robeson: "I could never be a Supreme Court judge; on the stage there was only the sky to hold me back." The stage quickly pitched him to fame in O'Neill's All God's Chillun Got Wings and The Emperor Jones. A scene in The Emperor Jones called for whistling and, because he could not whistle, Robeson sang. Having stirred the audience with his deep, rich voice, Robeson-who had never...
Died. Benjamin Anzelevitz, 52, "Ben Bernie, the O-O-Old Maestro," genial, plush-voiced veteran of stage, radio, screen; of a lung infection with heart complications ; in Beverly Hills. An East Side New York blacksmith's son, at 15 he gave a violin recital in Carnegie Hall, took up engineering after hearing Mischa Elman's debut.* In a Brauhaus he played his way through college, finally landed in vaudeville as "Ben, The Eccentric Violinist." In the early '20s he formed one of the country's leading dance bands (for a while his pianist was Oscar Levant...
...cost producers more than $100,000. By acquiring the rights before publication, M.G.M. will escape the cut-throat competitive bidding which sends up the price of anything that looks remotely like another Gone With the Wind. For its prize money M.G.M. will acquire the movie rights, control the legitimate stage and radio rights of its prize book...