Cows in The Kid From Brooklyn Wear Beards for Gairy Maid Number
A Virgo Vale item notes cows in Samuel Goldwyn's The Kid From Brooklyn appear in the Gairy maid musical number wearing pearl earrings hats and artificial lashes. Anita Gordon launched her career after a radio program and film contract with 20th Century Fox followed. Betty Hutton gets a new dressing room and Paramount gifts a bleached walnut piano for rehearsals.
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Samuel Goldwyn
Brooklyn
Danny Kaye
Betty Hutton
Boxing lore and navy tales mix in boxing history notes
The column surveys boxer versus puncher dynamics with names like Conn, Corbett, Johnson, Dempsey, Tunney, Langford and Blackburn. It recalls Navy recruitment anecdote with Billy Conn and hints at earnings by Ruth, Hagen and Nelson across decades.
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Jack Dempsey
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Tunney
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Sam
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Joe Louis
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Langford
Harry Wills
Conn recalls Louis bout after boxing duel turns to slugfest
Billy Conn recalls the 12th round where he believed he led on points but Louis landed a hard right. Conn says he boxed and moved well through the next rounds yet dumbly attempted a knockout, misjudging Louis's resilience and fatigue.
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Conn
Killer Conn
Joe Louis
Billy Conn
Louis
Joe
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