Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ballets like Billy the Kid. Chicago's big stage was just right for the Paris ballet's specialty: brilliant spectacle in the great tradition, plus the bold and polished choreography of a greying little man known to balletomanes the world over, Serge Lifar, a onetime Diaghilev star. (Americans were not likely to see Lifar dance, however. He has been cleared of Nazi collaboration, but the ballet's directors were not sure of his reception...
...theatrical season," wrote the New York Star's new drama critic last week, "got tangled in the starting gate Tuesday night, and all bets are temporarily off." That sounded more like a sport-writer than a play reviewer-and it was, sure enough. The reviewer, who got off to a somewhat better start than Sundown Beach (see THEATER), was John Lardner, 36, chipperest off the old block of all the late great Humorist Ringgold Wilmer Lardner's four sons...
...cubbed for his new job on the Star by pinch-hitting for ailing Wolcott Gibbs in the New Yorker last season. But Lardner's friends wondered how he would find time to cover his new beat. Although he considers himself a free-lance writer, at least four employers consider that they hold a proprietary interest in him. He is a staff contributor (of a sport column) to Newsweek, a staff writer on the New Yorker, a contributor on the new National Guardian (see above), and a veteran, but infrequent, sport columnist for North American Newspaper Alliance. (Newsweek felt...
Last week, introducing his friend to Star readers, Broadway Pressagent Richard Maney wrote: "Lardner will introduce at least one revolutionary note into dramatic criticism. He'll back his opinions with cash. Do you think that Boston has more people than Baltimore . . . that Bill Terry never hit .400? If you do it will cost you money to talk to Lardner. It's neither ballast nor diaries which bulge his jerkin. They're loose-leaf ledgers tabulating his daily speculations...
That was the story the arresting officers told popeyed reporters when they hauled the quartet to the Los Angeles county jail. A star of the first magnitude and an idol of organized bobby-soxers who call themselves the "Bob Mitchum Droolettes," the 31-year-old actor talked his head off in a mixture of remorse and forced humor...