Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gloria Swanson, star of the silent movies, and 300 students watched the Miss Swanson of 30-years ago cavort on the Fogg Large Room screen Tuesday night in an Ivy Films presentation of "Male and Female...
...Lord Jeffs played their opener Saturday, defeating MIT's booters, 4 to 1. In beating Tech, Amherst proved it hadn't at all been crippled by the graduation of its star center forward Ben Stoltzfus. The best-working part of its team in the MIT game was the forward line, observers report...
...ChiChi" Daly writes a daily column ("On the Solid Side") about teen-age manners & morals for the Chicago Tribune and 34 other newspapers, also turns out two Sunday newspaper columns and a monthly feature for the Ladies' Home Journal. Between times she lectures, and turns up as guest star on radio and TV. Last week Chi-Chi tossed off another chore; she autographed copies of her latest (and fourth) book of etiquette for teenagers, Blondes Prefer Gentlemen (Dodd, Mead; $2.50), and signed a contract for her column with the New York Daily News. She grosses $22,000 a year...
...Star Dust. In Texas' Scurry County, on a 1,700-acre tract leased by Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, drillers brought in a 1,000-barrel well, their second in two months. Hope and Crosby and their two Texas partners promptly began drilling two more. Near by, Don Ameche, who had leased 21,600 acres with three Chicago partners, had put up $200,000 to sink a wildcat. Just east of the small town of Rotan, Tex., where he had leased 1,500 acres, Randolph Scott and his partner found oil sands at 5,700 ft., hoped...
...Morris Car-novsky's generalized flourishes as a once-happy Greek, Lee Cobb's flabby, badly timed portrait of a marketeer, Millard Mitchell's hard-bitten acting of a tired truck driver. The Italian glitter girl, Valentina Cortesa, seems a likely candidate for the top-salaried star bracket. In the role of a waterfront fixture, she looks like an unemployed countess, but she spikes the role with a sweater-girl figure, viva-ciousness and great self-assurance...