Word: starring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deal which red-faced Mr. Germany described as a "tremendous donation of the stockholders for the benefit of this woman." The woman is Miss Alice Hansen, 3 5-year-old blonde president of Manhattan's Pittsburgh Steel Mill Co., a brokerage firm. She had a contract with Lone Star to buy 105,000 tons of pig iron at $39 a ton. She had put no cash down, and, said Germany, there was no way Lone Star could have collected if she had failed to make good...
...Lone Star, Vice President George Anderson, is sitting out his contract on an Arizona ranch, writing a history of the year-old company.) But, said Germany, she stood to make at least $2,000,000 and possibly $3,500,000 on the deal...
...received 4,000 tons at $39 a ton and resold them. At current prices of $75 a ton, this has brought an estimated profit of $140,000. She is scheduled to get 10% of Lone Star's monthly production (current output: about 20,000 tons a month) until her order is filled. She didn't think she would make as much as Germany estimated. But, said she, "I certainly hope to make a lot of money. That's the American...
...passes and presto! 1) much of Lindsay & Grouse's dialogue disappeared, and the cutting edge was flaked off; 2) the gadfly-buzz of the play's action slowed to a snore. To sustain the illusion of interest, Wonder-Worker Capra relied on a blaze of star-power: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Van Johnson, Adolphe Menjou, Angela Lansbury. But Tracy, as in all his recent pictures, lacks fire; Hepburn's affectation of talking like a woman trying simultaneously to steady a loose dental brace sharply limits her range of expression; Johnson, playing a Drew Pearsonish columnist...
Meanwhile, at St. James's Theater, Guy Domville had opened brilliantly, but during the second act the audience began to laugh at an elderly actress whose hoop skirt and high plumed hat struck them as ridiculous. Then the producer (and star) made an awkward last-act exit, and the uproar became a thunderstorm...