Word: yachted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shakespeare (to understand the peculiar relationship of Othello and Iago, Carradine at first alternated in both roles); he got his first movie job because Cecil B. De Mille heard him spouting Hamlet as he tramped Hollywood Boulevard looking for work. For his present nationwide venture, Carradine sold his yacht and mortgaged his house. He is his own producer, director and sole owner as well as star. Says he: "That's the only way to do Shakespeare, for good or evil, so that it hangs together. If this goes over," he vows, "I'm through with Hollywood forever...
...recently formed his own band; the girls who became Brenda and Cobina. But he used skillful carpenters-a round dozen scriptwriters with whom he slaved for weeks. And Hope started ribbing himself. The show clicked almost from the start. Pepsodent's president took Hope on his yacht, remarked: "This is the ship that Amos 'n' Andy built." Said Hope: "If I'm on the Pepsodent payroll much longer, you'll use this as a tender...
...Behind. Lord Louis was a lowly sublieutenant when World War I ended. Between wars he advanced to the rank of captain, also earned the reputation of a blooded, moneyed playmate of the Prince of Wales. For various high jinks, he was blackballed from the haughty Royal Yacht Squadron. But behind the gaiety was a lot of earnest attention to naval matters. At World War II's beginning Lord Louis had command of the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla. Twice his flagship, the Kelly, was badly crippled. In May 1941 he took her into the hell of Crete. That time the Kelly...
John C. Burton '44 won the high scorer's honors in the summer dinghy championship of the Intercollegiate yacht Racing Association held over the last weekend. Competing against men from 14 colleges, Burton won top honors by skippering four firsts, two seconds, a fourth, and a fifty...
Errol Flynn, a yacht, and a girl again made news. Nora Eddington, 19, recently an aircraft worker, was cruising with him off Acapulco, Mexico. Word got around that they were married. Actor Errol denied it; so did Nora. Her mother, who works in a Los Angeles bakery, told reporters that Nora had said "she didn't know whether she loved him for himself, or whether she just was in love with his glamor. So I kissed her good-by and I haven't heard from her since...