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...grossed $1,000,000. Enthusiasm had run high. But Company Manager David Libidins was vastly relieved when he saw the gangplanks lifted. It had not been easy to mind 52 dancers, seven mothers, two fathers, 21 orchestramen, a marmoset, four turtles, a rabbit, a dog. To accommodate the troupe there had been six Pullmans, four baggage cars and a diner, besides the two-room auto-trailer which Leonide Massine, maitre de ballet, used because he wanted his borshch and pirozhki prepared by his own Russian cook...
...family of 16 occupy a ramshackle two-room house, operating a farm as tenants. Rent: 800 lb. of cotton a year. Last year's crop was four bales. After paying two bales for rent and two for fertilizer and funds advanced, the year's profit...
...Near Keysville a two-room house is occupied by three families, each consisting of man and wife and from one to four children each...
Divorced from Actress Eames (who died in 1930), Sidney Howard married "Polly" Damrosch, daughter of famed Conductor Walter Damrosch, in 1931. Two years ago they moved to California in a Buick. A thin, high-shouldered man, whose thick glasses and birdlike carriage give him a slightly alarmed appearance, Sidney Howard has a two-room flat in Hollywood, a more capacious apartment in Manhattan. For work he dresses in a tweed coat, grey flannel trousers, sneakers. He smokes cigarets steadily and rubs his chin while dictating, by fits and starts, faster than most stenographers can take...
...rule that humorists are uneasy and irascible in their private life. Ed Howe is no exception. Married in 1875 to a wife who bore him three children, he often found his family, like most of his friends, a burden. Behind their brick home in Atchison he built a two-room house in which he lived alone. Thirty years ago Mr. and Mrs. Howe were divorced...