Word: vic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sarah Churchill, green-eyed, ginger-haired actress-daughter of Winston and ex-wife of Comedian Vic Oliver, was having a complicated love life before cameras in Italy. Engaged for two pictures, one British, one Italian, she fell to work on both, shuttled back and forth between her roles: 1) an American composer's wife, 2) a Sicilian baron's wife, in love with another guy. "Two films at once," cried haggard Sarah, running into a little syntaccident, "are almost too much...
...Lisbon" was the third Constellation to catch fire and crash-land in the last ten months. The first, an Army plane manned by a Pan American crew, went down near Linn, Kans. in September. The second was a commercial Pan American ship (carrying members of London's Old Vic company back to Britain), which dropped an engine and squeaked into Willimantic, Conn, last month...
...been planned as a benefit-for U.S. playgoers. When London's Old Vic players came to Broadway for six weeks of repertory, their sponsors, nonprofit Theatre, Inc., expected to drop about...
Last week, when the Old Vic completed its run, Theatre, Inc. totted up the chit. Sample items: 1) $92,000 round-trip traveling expenses for actors, scenery and props; 2) $75,000 theater rent; 3) $1,000 medical expenses, much of it for laryngitis, some for overeating. The grand total lived up to the sponsors' worst fears: more than...
...Vic had grossed a whopping average $50,701 a week (a Broadway repertory record), and had made nearly $5,000 profit. The guests will get half, the hosts half...