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...received for singing and clowning with Cantor promptly classed Harmon as a professional, barred him from continuing to play basketball and baseball at Michigan this spring. But to Tom Harmon it was worth it. From East and West came radio offers (including a fabulous tie-up with Bing Crosby), movie contracts from Warner Brothers and M. G. M., a flood of fan letters (including just the imprint of a girl's lips...
Escape (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Hollywood maintains a constant vigil these days for anti-fascist material with lots of bing-bang action. The appearance of pseudonymous Ethel Vance's novel Escape last year set off a scramble for its cinema rights which ended with an M. G. M. victory costing $50,000. It was worth...
Down into his fabulous cashless pocket dug the brown hand of shrewd Negro Cultist Major J. ("Father") Divine, and bought a new "heaven": the $500,000, 21-room Tudor mansion once the property of Manhattan Realtor Leo S. Bing, in wealthy Tarrytown, N. Y. Assessed at $169,000, last sold for $27,000, Divine got it for $36,000, will enjoy as one of his nearest neighbors the Duchesse de Talleyrand, formerly Anna Gould, who was reported "pretty angry...
...there is very little about the show that is dreamy-eyed. The story concerns a song writing tycoon (variously surmised as a take-off on--(1) George Gershwin, (2) Cole Porter, (3) Palestrina) who has lost his touch; ergo, he hires two very substantial looking ghosts, baby-face Bing Crosby and anything-but-baby-face Mary Martin. The Crosby-Martin arrangement gets hot, finally takes the tune away from tycoon Basil Rathbone. Moral:--Youth Will Be Served. P.S. A gargoyle named Levant appeared periodically. Four women swooned. Two children were carried out in hysterics...
...five other onetime champions who teed off in the 44th annual U. S. Amateur golf tournament. They powdered their noses while Defending Champion Bud Ward, generally considered the best amateur in the U. S., split the fairway with his drive. The golfer they had gone to see was Crooner Bing Crosby, whose habitual air of mild surprise never fitted him better than when he found himself among 150 topnotchers who had qualified for the national championship...