Walter Winchell on Broadway and city life snippets
A collage of brief notes from Walter Winchell on Broadway and New York City scenes. Vignettes include a sign against trespassers near a pitifully rundown block on Grand Street, shop windows with fur bathing suits, and a peanut vendor near the Polo Grounds. Also mentioned are a Columbus Circle shoeshine boy, a humorous pet vocabulary statistic, and quick quips on Germany, Italy, and Stalin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Street
Polo Grounds
Lagnan 8Th Avenue
Katharine Cornell Nears Shaw Adaptation With Pascal
Hollywood reports Katharine Cornell may join Gabriel Pascal for a Shaw stage adaptation film project after Pascal won her interest through Shaw's praise of Pygmalion and Major Barbara. The Doctor's Dilemma could shoot in England if the war ends, or in Hollywood if it continues. Lee, star of My Life With Caroline, stays busy at 20th Century Fox.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ollywood
INS
Katharine Cornell
Gabriel Pascal
George Bernard Shaw
Kit
Pascal
Shaw
Cornell
Pygmalion
Barbara
England
Hollywood
MA Lee
Robert Stevenson
Stevensons
Miss Lee
Caroline
Ronald Colman
20Th Century-Fox
Side Glances from Bronwen The Green Valley and Hollywood
In London production news for How Green Was My Valley the cast expands with John Sutton and Roddy MacDowall joining. Ben Lyon and Bebe Daniels work on You Cant Escape Forever set in Paris before occupation with Ann Dvorak and Mary Maguire. Reports cover Hedy Lamarr health, Jane Withers Hollywood social life, and other nightclub and party notes from early 1941.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bronwen
Green
Valley
John Sutton
Roddy MacDowall
London
Ben Lyon
Bebe Daniels
Paris
Ann Dvorak
Leslie Fenton
Mary Maguire
Ben
Bebe
Hollywood
England
The Poet Edgar A Guest and a Lesson in Fame
A short verse recalls Edgar A. Guest as a public figure who shocks a youngster by displaying arrogance. The poem critiques fame and asks for generosity and understanding behind worldly success. It notes the poet’s act of revealing greatness at its worst and the boy’s early view of splendor.
U. S. Chamber Demands Realistic Tax Plan
The United States Chamber of Commerce urged the Roosevelt administration to present a realistic tax program to curb uncertainties from unclear revenue proposals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
United States Chamber of Commerce
Roosevelt
Penny Serenade and Other Theatrical Listings
Irene Dunne and Cary Grant star in Penny Serenade at theaters. Strange Alibi with Joan Perry. Paramount shows The Great Dictator with Chaplin Goddard Oakie Gilbert. Loretta Young and Robert Preston in The Lady From Cheyenne and Ride, Kelly Ride with Eugene Pallette. Comin Round the Mountain with Bob Burns and Romance of the Rio Grande with Cesar Romero at Palace. Island of Doomed Men with Peter Lorre and Robert Wilcox. Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie with Johnny Mack Brown and Fuzzy Knight at Rialto. Edison vs Man with Spencer Tracy at Strand. The Jones Family in On Their Own. Jerry on the stage at Marion. Jerry in West of Pinto Basin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paramount
Charlie Chaplin
Paulette Goddard
Jack Oakie
Billy Gilbert
Loretta Young
Robert Preston
Cheyenne
Kelly
Eugene Pallette
Bob Burns
Rialto
Peter Lorre
Robert Wilcox
Johnny Mack Brown
Fuzzy Knight
The
Lone Prairie
Strand
Spencer Tracy
Edison Vs
Man
Jones Family
Lundeen Widow Defends Him On Air After Crash
Mrs. Lundeen spoke in a radio broadcast from Lovettsville Virginia August 31 seeking to clear her husband of slander after his death. She cited letters from Attorney General Jackson and FBI Director Hoover denying he was under investigation and charged two FBI agents killed in the plane disaster were not assigned to watch him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
Lovettsville
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Lundeen
Jackson
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Congressional
Also Mentioned on This Page
Walter Winchell
Broadway
Manhattan
Wilfred J. Funk
Germany
Stalin
Norway
Belgium
Yugoslavia
Doe
Daily Worker
Italy
Tunisia
Nice
Corsica
Rome
Madison Square Garden
Soose
By Galbraith
Atlantic
Vivien Leigh
London Pictorial Review
Ackie Cooper
Glenn Miller
the Palladium
Miller
Jane Withers
Buddy Pepper
Freddy
Palladium
Jane
Buddy
Jackie
Ugly Duckling
Joe Brown, Jr
Freddy Bartholomew
Alli
Hedy Lamarr
Verne Mason
Laurie Doug
Les Peterson
Les
Mickey Rooney
P. A
Rags Raglund
Ragsno
Bag
Buddy de Sylva
Hattie
DuBarry
Ricardo Cortez
Frances Farmer
Virgin Bruce
Robert Kent
Astrid Allwyn
Bill Lundigan
the Seven Seas
A Chapman
Fannie Brice
Jimmy Walker
Cena O'Driscoll
Don Castle
Elgg
Hollywood Tropics
Florentine
Constance
Gilbert Roland
Ciro’s
Ann Sothern
Maisie
Kathryn Grayson
Beverly Tropics
Murphy
Warren Hymer
Kay Harris
Harvard
Marjorie Woodworth
Hal Roach
Jean Harlow
Carole Landis
Jean Gabin
Olga Smith
Fred Heckel
Alandale
C. R
Valcon
MEA Service
REO
U.S. Pat
Edgar A. Guest
the Poet of
the People
U. S
Irene Dunne
Cary Grant
Joan Perry
Marion
Jerry
Pinto Basin
NAVY
Shester Hel
A Morth
Singer Theater
Tie Dunne
Mgrk
Columbia Picture
J Joan ‘Perry
Gary Cooper
John Doe
Barbara Stanwyck
Garba Clapin
James Hilton
Robert Montgomery
Onarid
Bergman Heaven
Geo. Sanders
Lucile Watson
Oscar Homolka
W. S. van Dyke
Prieve
Edward Arnold
Lionel Barrymore
Marshe Hunt
Gene Reynolds
Peter B
and Merkel
Don Wilson
Romance OF
Rio Grande
Cesar Romero
Iowa
the Who
Wert
Want
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