Walter Winchell Explores Critics In New York Showworld
In a portrait of Broadway life critics evoke drama as stars cope with reviews. Ethel Merman and George S Kaufman illustrate resilience, while Mary Martin Humphrey Bogart and Ethel Barrymore show fame amid harsh notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broadway
Hollywood
Ethel Merman
The
Star
Bob Levitt
Ethel
George S. Kaufman
Kaufman
George
Marlon Brando
Mary Martin
Miss Martin
Alexander Woollcott
Humphrey Bogart
Divorced Mother Seeks Mature Companionship Advice
A 44 year old divorcee with three children seeks guidance on finding adult companionship. A columnist advises focusing on inner growth, kindness at home, and spiritual study to combat loneliness, suggesting outreach through the newspaper column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Haworth
L.D
Jesus
God
Harper & Brothers
Emmet Fox
Noted Critic Seeks Companion on Evening Visit
A street meeting with John Barrymore leads to a quip about accompanying a critic. Barrymore states he is visiting a friend and the critic asks to join, joking that he has never seen one.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Barrymore
John
Oddities and Observations From Around The World
A collage of quirky notes on hosiery machinery in London, the Communist Daily Worker’s sustained circulation during a strike, Las Vegas Riviera claiming tallest building status, a New York Post fashion item on coffee sachets, a joke about cremation, tax revenue facts, Gone With the Wind’s delayed release in the Netherlands, and a British physiologist on interior beauty. It also mentions streamlined trains with old emergency kits and a country editor’s quip about aging.
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Milady
London
Communist
Daily Worker
Las Vegas
Nev
The
Riviera
New York Post
Tilindis
Netherlands
Denmark
J. B. S. Haldane
Cooking's Fun and Weekday Supper Recipes Shared
A vintage kitchen page offers strawberry serving ideas and several dish ideas. Recipes include a Strawberry Citrus Bowl with grapefruit orange and berries, Creamed Green Peas with Oysters and Bacon on toast, a Tossed Green Salad with Cheese Strips, and a Te Cake Dessert with nut meats and chocolate sauce.
Dusty roads and roadside commerce in mid century life
A snapshot notes suburban drive in liquor stores selling groceries last minute items like bread and milk. A Louisiana oil millionaire farms 800 acres and sells pure bred bulls on easy terms, with bulls priced from 2000 to 4000 dollars and a 15000 dollar bull among a 70 head herd. A cynic remarks on marriages. Carl Zuchmayer urges caution on films about Hitler ten years after his death. British papers' top advertisers include U S products Kellogg's Mars and Tide.
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Louisiana
Germany
Carl Zuchmayer
Hitler
U. S
Kellogg's
Mars Confectionary
Tide
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Jack Horwitz
Walter Winchell IN
New York
Woollcott
N. Y. Times
Alec
Mansfield
Ethel Barrymore
John Drew
Drew
James Whittaker
Ina Claire
Sybil Thorndike
George M. Cohan
Cohan
Pittsburgh
Richard Mansfield
John Anderson
Brooks Atkinson
Walter Kerr
Harper's
Percy Hasim
Forward Movement Publications
Gyre Street
Cincinnati
Neal O’ Hara
By Cecily Brownstone
Tobias
Cie
Guilford Optical CO
N. Main St
PIN Money Cottons
Middy
Terry
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