Word: bert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Around the Corner" gives audiences at the University Theatre eighty minutes of diverting plot and catchy songs, of which the catchiest is "I Like to Walk in the Rain." Amanda Duff enables Charles Farrell to make a dignified come-back, with the nimble feet of Bill Robinson and the Bert Lahr baritone helping things out. "Arrest Bulldog Drummond" is a satisfactory companion piece...
Married. Wayne Morris (real name: Bert De Wayne Morris Jr.), 24, cinemactor (Kid Galahad, Valley of the Giants, Brother Rat); and Leonore ("Bubbles") Schinasi, 18. step-daughter of a late millionaire Manhattan tobacco importer; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
...current version of Zaza, directed by George Cukor, acted by Claudette Colbert and Herbert Marshall, and equipped with dialogue consisting principally of "Ah, zut!" conforms to tradition so perfectly that, presumably from force of long habit, censors even objected to the cancan dances. Climactic shot: Comedian Bert Lahr, playing a straight role for the first time in his career, as Zaza's vaudeville partner, conveying the scandalous news that he has seen her lover drinking chocolate with a lady not his mistress...
...four days a week with the aid of a battery of experts, have been the six railroaders-Presidents Martin Withington Clement of Pennsylvania and Ernest Eden Norris of Southern, Vice Chairman Carl Raymond Gray of Union Pacific, Chairman George McGregor Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives' Association, President Bert Mark Jewell of the Railway Employes' Department of A. F. of L. and President David Brown Robertson of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. Last week, after Messrs. Gray and Harrison again conferred with Franklin Roosevelt, the committee finally reported...
...tracks), has matched his skill against the top-notch jockeys of the country at all the Eastern tracks, is the second highest money winner ($250,000) as well as the leading rider. Ever since 1935 when he made his Eastern debut by winning five out of six races on Bert Baroni's Top Row, Johnny Longden has been in great demand. A contract rider for the famed Wheatley Stable until two months ago, he is now under contract to Don Cameron, trainer for the stables of Mrs. John Hertz, Vera Bragg and J. Shirley Riley...