Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best-selling books in the U.S. last fortnight was Radio Actress Ilka Chase's Past Imperfect. Word had gone forth that this hodgepodge personal history is as broad as it is high, and generously peppered with peephole patter about everybody from the late William Alexander Percy (Lanterns on the Levee) to café society's Lady Mendl and Hollywood's George Cukor...
...Cowles, a graduate M.D. of 62, with great faith in the suggestibility of mankind, started his clinic, known originally as the Body & Soul, in 1923 in connection with Manhattan's famous church of St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie. Six years later, Actress Jeanne Eagels died in his Park Avenue sanitarium, of an overdose of heroin. By 1932, after Dr. Cowles had treated several thousand patients in St. Mark's, the vestrymen told Dr. Cowles to clear out. This action was approved by Bishop William T. Manning...
DEATH ON THE AISLE-Frances and Richard Lockridge-Lippincott ($2). Mr. & Mrs. North, especially the latter, lend their exasperating assistance to Lieut. Weigand of the New York police in clearing up the murders of a theatrical angel and an actress who knew too much. Good plot, highlighted by Pam North's wacky humor...
Ginger Rogers' mother makes her debut as an actress in her daughter's next picture. Mother's role: her daughter's mother...
...anyone still remains unconvinced, here is proof in joyous abundance that the day Ginger Rogers stopped being the other half of Fred Astaire was one of the brightest days the motion picture art has ever seen. As Roxie Hart she is all things at once--comedienne, dramatic actress, dancer, and complete proof that not only something good, but something terrific can come out of Hollywood, even if they do say so themselves...