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...while eel-hipped, coffee-skinned Josephine Baker wriggled with abandon through the scenes of Shuffle Along, an obscure young Negress in the chorus named Catherine Yarborough was saving her subway nickels by trudging from the stage door on 63rd Street to her dingy $3.50-a-week room on 137th Street. Few years later, both women migrated from Broadway to Europe, the racy Josephine to gaudy fame in the Casino de Paris, Catherine Yarborough to drudge over the scores of Aïda and L'Africaine in France and Italy. Some day she meant to return, become the first Negro...
...Shrine of the Little Flower" near Detroit. Money has poured in upon him, more than enough to pay $20,000-a-week expenses and build a showy "Charity Crucifixion Tower," buy statuary for the Shrine. Criticism he can ignore, even that of Boston's stocky old William Henry Cardinal O'Connell who has muttered, "It is better for everyone concerned when a priest keeps his place." For Father Coughlin is responsible only to his superior, Bishop Michael James Gallagher. And he claims the backing of Pope Pius XI who has said that "every minister of holy religion must...
...months after he left Cambridge, Johnny Green tried dutifully to be a stock broker's clerk. Then he took a $60-a-week job with Paramount Publix, which led to ghosting at the piano, orchestrating Maurice Chevalier's Big Pond, synchronizing shorts. Five years have obliterated his Harvard stamp. He chews gum, wears tan spats, pin-checked suits, hires a trainer to pummel him every morning so that he will appear dapper when he gets chances to conduct in cinemansions. Johnny Green's bathroom is his pride. It is papered with the covers of the 15 songs...
...Martin John Insull, gaunt, long-nosed brother of Athenian Samuel Insull, was persuaded to leave his $20-a-week boarding house in Orillia, Ont. last week and journey 86 mi. south to Toronto to be arrested. On arrival he was introduced to Detective Sergeant Ewing, shook hands heartily. The State of Illinois had added to the charges of larceny and embezzlement for which he was arrested last October, the new charge of "theft by bailee." Released on $5,000 bail he returned to his boarding house in Orillia to await a formal extradition hearing...
Tibbett's Metropolitan Opera audition got him a $60-a-week contract. He made his debut as Valentine in Faust, learned the role in two days without knowing a word of French. Just another baritone, critics thought, with a better voice than most but no experience. He muddled his entrances and exits. His elbows stuck out. His small, turned-up nose was not much to look at. He got the chance to sing Ford in Falstaff only because Baritone Vincente Ballester was sick. When the audience started shouting for him Tibbett was upstairs in his dressing-room removing...