Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That night-July 4- was no night for Sunday seamen. The schooner Morning Star radioed to shore: "Heavy swells with cross-chop." Radiomen on other boats were more explicit: all hands were sick and wished they were dead. The yawl Emerald's crew let their stomachs guide them-back to port. Patolita lost her mainsail. One boat had hopefully taken along a dry-land chef. Near Catalina Island he was feeling poorly; he put to sea in a life preserver, was picked up and taken ashore in a guide boat...
After seven weeks of howling success on the air, radio's newest star is disgusted. He meets the public so often now that he has to take a bath every two weeks-twice as often as he used to. His reward is a mere 25 biscuits a show-mouse-bait to a full-grown, well-to-do male collie like "Lassie" (real name...
...first time in history," the announcer intones, "a dog appears as the star of a national radio program. But . . . a word from our star, Lassie. All your fans have asked what your favorite color is. Is it blue? [Pause] Pink? [Pause] Now don't tell me it's Red Heart...
...absurd it was for a group of Americans to perform classic Oriental dances for the Orientals. "I said to myself, 'Why am I here trying to do their dances. . . . They must wonder how we dance ourselves. How do we?' " In 1929 he teamed up with another Denishawn star, Doris Humphrey, and set out to supply an answer...
...been plugging a young singer named Doris Day, who, I believed, had fine talent. . . . Mike Curtiz tested her for the lead in Romance in High C. She'd never been before a camera previously, but Mike told me her test was sensational. Even so, the studio wanted a star name-Mary Martin, Lauren Bacall, or Ginny Simms-for the role, but Mike held out for Doris...