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N.F.L. by-laws achieve similar effects by requiring members to broadcast or televise their games outside their "territories," to secure permission from the two clubs playing in each "territory" and from League Commissioner Bert Bell...
...Aisle. Topical revue with Bert Lahr and Dolores Gray, which can, thank its stars for its brightness (TIME, July...
...time vaudeville in one jump. His first wife, a beautiful ex-burlesque soubrette named Mercedes Delpino, was his straight woman. LAHR AND MERCEDES, read big newspaper ads, A RIOT OF MIRTH AND IRRESISTIBLE COMEDY. He bought a Packard car and tailored suits, and dreamed of Broadway. "Bert," said the Broadway wise guys, "you're too burlesquey." But in 1927 he got his break. An ex-vaudevillian named Harry Delmar put a revue on Broadway, and asked Lahr to bring his cop act in. Delmar's Revels ran only 16 weeks-and part of the time it existed only...
...happy voice make the revue's less-than-distinctive music sound far better than it is. Paris-born Ballerina Colette Marchand reveals one of the Continent's sexiest pairs of legs, sheathed in provocative black silk stockings. But it is bald, big-nosed, wild-eyed Bert Lahr who carries the show, provides it with tone, personality, guts and laughter and nightly fills the big house (1,527 seats) to bulging capacity...
...next day gritty, garish, gold-lined Broadway was Bert Lahr's street. Lahr was a smash. Lahr was a sensation. NEW COMEDY KING CROWNED, read a Journal headline. Hold Everything ran for 413 performances. Suddenly the headwaiters, the cabbies, the reporters, the speakeasy bartenders all knew Bert Lahr. He played the Palace three times in six months with his old cop act at $4,500 a week. One hit followed another: Flying High, Hot-Cha!, Life Begins at 8:40, George White's Scandals, The Show...