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...Wells has been in ever since. Last week, back in the U.S. for the fourth time, it was greeted by New Yorkers as an old friend. Indeed, it had not changed. Along with its 48 tons of imposing scenery and costumes, it brought a repertory that included a familiar full-length Swan Lake, a new production of Coppelia, a restaging of Fokine's Firebird; all these are ballets reaching to a wide public that cares less for pirouettes than for the pageantry of a world peopled by kings and queens, wicked magicians and good fairies in butterfly-drawn coaches...
Cinemogul Samuel Goldwyn, interviewed on the eve of his 73rd birthday, abandoned his famed malapropisms in favor of some straight-spoken reminiscences. Recalling how he had teamed up with Jesse Lasky and Cecil B. DeMille to grind out Hollywood's first full-length feature film, The Squaw Man, in 1913, Pioneer Goldwyn chuckled: "What a trio to go into the movie business! I had seen one movie-something with Broncho Billy [G. M. Anderson] chasing a train. Jesse and Cecil had never seen any!" After Director DeMille had inexpertly filmed The Squaw Mart (with Dustin Farnum and Winifred Kingston...
...Griffelkin and Stanley Hollingsworth's La Grande Breteche. Britain's Margot Fonteyn will dance in the ballet, The Sleeping Beauty. Ex-Ambassador Chester Bowles will give an hour-long report on India, and The Constant Husband, starring Rex Harrison and Margaret Leighton, will be the first full-length movie to be presented on TV before being released to movie theaters...
...father, a prosperous merchant, had been Senator and twice Mayor of Lübeck. His mother was the daughter of a German planter in South America who married a Portuguese Creole. Mann studied literature in Munich, journeyed to Rome, and at 25 had a stupendous success with his first full-length novel, the story of the decay of a bourgeois family similar to his own. Buddenbrooks sold more than a million copies in Germany, brought Mann the Nobel Prize for Literature...
...actress ("Of course, I don't consider that I act on this show-I'm being myself, which is harder than acting"), earns $150 for each five-minute performance, will get $500 when she gets a sponsor. In her opening week, she wore a different full-length nightie for each show, but now she feels comfortably at home, henceforth will skip about in scanties...