Word: ann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shows of Yesteryear. Between 1907 and 1927 the Follies had just about everybody: Mae Murray, Ina Claire, Nora Bayes, Ed Wynn, Ann Pennington, Marion Davies, Marilyn Miller, George White, Leon Errol, Raymond Hitchcock, the Dolly Sisters, Van & Schenck, Moran & Mack. Among the Follies song writers were Victor Herbert, Jerome Kern, Rudolf Friml, Irving Berlin. In one edition or another, Fanny Brice choked throats with My Man, Gilda Gray upped blood pressures with her shimmy, Bill Fields played his ludicrous game of pool, Gallagher & Shean hurled countrywide their most famous song...
Writer and War Worker. Popular, friendly, publicity-shunning, William Hervey Allen is a man of many parts. Money in the bank is anathema to him, so proceeds from Anthony Adverse went into realizing Allen's feudal dream of a self-sustaining family unit. With his wife Ann and three children (Marcia, 13; Mary Ann, ii; Richard, 6) he built on Maryland's Eastern Shore "one of the most complete family plants in the world," making bread from his own wheat, wine from his own grapes. Cows, hens and the waters of an inlet from Chesapeake Bay supply...
...Network began the Prize Show when it came to the realization that Harvard men wanted sex in the radio. Early programs starring Ann Corio and other celebrities proved very, successful, but programs just featuring a female voice failed badly...
Deeply alarmed by the College attitude, even though she has never been voted worst anything by the cynic Poon, Deanna was the first to answer the letter sent by the War Service Committee, to 12 stars, including Veronica Lake, Ann Sheridan, and Betty Grable...
Dreamer. In Ann Arbor, Mich., hospital attendants did what they could for Private Patrick Pisula, who had imitated "the man in the circus" at a bar, taken a couple of bites out of a glass, tried hard to swallow a knife...