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...gloom over Tremont Street these days might be issuing from the Shubert or Plymouth theatres, or then again, it might just be smoke from the cigars of the two Messrs. Shuberts and Mr. Abbott as they ponder the cruel world and what it has done to their new openings...
Perhaps it is unfair to mention "Night of Love" in the same breath with "White-Haired Boy," which is still fighting for life, and might, with a few injections for which Abbott is famous, manage to get down to New York on its own feet...
...Chicago Defender (82,059),a stanch Republican organ for 35 years until Editor Robert Sengstacke Abbott died last February, declared for Roosevelt...
Cracking records is nothing new to Ab Jenkins. Son of a Welsh master mechanic who went to the U. S. to supervise the construction of a Kansas steel mill (and settled in Utah because his wife had joined the Mormon Church), young Ab-christened David Abbott-was a bike racer in the early days of the Century, later raced motorcycles on half-mile dirt tracks. In 1921, when he was a successful building contractor, he won his first auto race-on a $250 bet that he could drive his Nash from Blackfoot, Idaho to Salt Lake City and back...
...juvenile program that has ever appeared on the air. Written by amiable Playwright Clifford Goldsmith, featuring 21 -year-old, crack-voiced prodigy Ezra Stone, The Aldrich Family will continue to relate the trials & tribulations of adolescent Henry Aldrich, who first turned up in Manhattan in 1937 in the George Abbott comedy What a Life. Besides The Aldrich Family, radio's summer substitute fare (on Eastern Daylight Saving Time) will include: >Abbott & Costello, oldtime vaudevillians, who will split with Mr. District Attorney the 9-10 Wednesday night period on NBC's red network left vacant by Fred Allen...