Word: vaudevillians
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Common Ground is about some U.S.O. entertainers captured by the enemy just before the liberation of Naples. The melting-pot troupe (Jewish comedian, Italian-born vaudevillian, Hollywood actor of German descent, etc.) faces a cold-blooded Nazi colonel who orders the Jew to a concentration camp, gives the others the choice between trouping as Axis propagandists or being shot. Each vacillates, rationalizes, wrestles with his conscience; all, in the end, choose to die. Their decision is also a retort: by their love of democracy and hatred of oppression, Americans of diverse backgrounds do share a common ground...
Divorced. Sarah Churchill, 30, redhaired, green-eyed second daughter of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, British Women's Auxiliary Air Force member, onetime vaudevillian, her father's companion at Casablanca and Yalta; by Vic Oliver, 46, U.S.-naturalized comedian, ex-Austrian baron (Victor Samek); after eight years of marriage (no children); in London...
...Angeles ; many of them have seen it four or five times (one man has attended 125 Saturday matinees and invariably writes a note of apology when he cannot be present). On an initial investment of $10,500 it has grossed for its producers and master of ceremonies, Old Vaudevillian Ken Murray, some...
Married. Charles ("Charley") Grapewin, 69, onetime circus acrobat, novelist and vaudevillian, whose cackling portrayals of cinema pas and grandpas (The Good Earth, The Grapes of Wrath) have made his amiable old fox's face familiar to millions of cinemaddicts; and Loretta McGowan Becker, 46, handsome Chicago divorcee; both for the second time; in Chicago...
...voluntary entertainment for servicemen, a movie (Weekend at the Waldorf) in the making, Author-Actress Maxwell commutes frequently between her Waldorf apartment and Hollywood, where she lives with Evalyn Walsh McLean and the Hope diamond. Having been at one time or other in her career a pianist, composer, vaudevillian, singer, music critic, impresario and hotel keeper, she now describes herself as homeless, without a possession in the world, and terribly busy. Fortnight hence, after the Dec. 7 premiere of her "beloved crony" Cole Porter's new musical Seven Lively Arts, she plans to give a party for the cast...