Word: bert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strength of "Love and Hisses," lies in its humor, which ranges from the involved practical jokes of the city slicker, as played by Mr. Winchel and Mr. Bernie, to the magnificent clowning of Bert Lahr and Joan Davis, who make a good bid to steal the show. In between these extremes, however, is the simpler and far more appealing humor of the naive mind, childishly coping with the wicked world. At this sort of thing, strangely enough, Mile Simon is very good indeed...
Merry-Go-Round of 1938 (Bert Lahr, Jimmy Savo, Billy House, Alice Brady; TIME...
Merry-Go-Round of 1938 (Bert Lahr, Jimmy Savo, Billy House, Alice Brady TIME...
Merry-Go-Round of 1938 (Bert Lahr, Jimmy Savo, Billy House, Alice Brady, TIME...
Barely out of Columbia, he married red-headed Alva Taylor. Because he was the son-in-law of a famed Chicago Tribune columnist, the late Bert Leston Taylor, Gallico was made welcome on the Tribune's New York cousin, lusty Daily News. Hired to review movies, he was soon kicked downstairs to the sports department where he reigned as editor and columnist for 14 years, including a brief spell when he was also assistant managing editor. He painfully learned skiing, flying and other sports he wrote about. It made good copy...