Word: starring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood, Bing Crosby, 44, was named the nation's favorite movie star, according to the annual poll taken by the trade magazine Boxoffice. Bing barely edged out Ingrid Bergman, 31, who had won the top spot for the past two years. Other favorites, in order of their popularity: Gary Cooper, 47, Claudette Colbert, 43, Clark Gable...
There may be no theater in this country in another ten years. At present it is a very risky business gamble to produce any show, the cost of production demanding that successful plays possess either a well-known star or a script that doesn't deviate from one of the recognized "sure-fire" formulas. Theater art rarely can figure in the Broadway scheme. If production costs continue to mount, so will ticket prices, and there's no surer way to shut off the theater from the masses than through their pocketbooks...
Many of the people who concern themselves with such far-sighted matters feel that the only way out of this impending crisis is by decentralization of the theater on Broadway and de-emphasizing the "star system." This would probably require government subsidy of a revolving chain of professional repertory groups strung across the country. The United States is the only major country that does not today subsidize the arts, and there is currently a movement afoot to have President Truman create a new cabinet post--Secretary of Fine Arts. Surely a capitalistic democracy has a need for artists...
Died. Edgar ("Slow Burn") Kennedy, 58, bald, veteran cinema comic (henpecked star of The Average Man two-reelers); of cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif...
...York Star's reviewer tried to do. He jeered: "Cheer up, all you young women with $80 million. Happiness can be yours, anyway...