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...know you wish him Godspeed same as I do. Bye-bye!" Godfrey's abrupt sacking of Crooner La Rosa, which was news to Julius, was also a Page One story to newspapers across the country.* It was quickly made even juicier by the added information that Bandleader Archie Bleyer, 44, a longtime Godfrey regular, had been fired the same day from the daytime and Wednesday shows, would work only eight weeks more on the Monday night Talent Scouts...
...Archie Bleyer, said Godfrey, all choked up: "I love that man. He's a gentleman." But Archie, too, had lost his humility. Bandleader Bleyer had spent part of a recent vacation by going out to Chicago for his own record company and cutting some songs with the star of a rival network-ABC's Don (Breakfast Club) McNeill. "It's like being married to a woman for 20 years," said Godfrey mournfully, "and then coming home and finding a cigar butt in the ashtray...
...Cute? Although Godfrey tossed in a slurring remark on his Wednesday night show ("I'm sure you have noticed through the years that those who are the great ones stay with me"), his two ex-great ones were careful to show no rancor. Bleyer kept his peace. La Rosa appealed to reporters as a mixed-up kid: "It was Mr. Godfrey who kept telling me I was humble and to stay that way . . . He kept harping on that humility thing . . . This guy-pardon me-Mr. Godfrey -Mr. Godfrey has one of the best shows...
...tears ("Their harmony is like a symphony or a sunset"). The Mariners, another quartet, is made up of ex-Coast Guardsmen. Godfrey calls them "the only male quartet in the U.S. that's working regularly." Other valuable stooges and straight men: Announcer Tony Marvin, Orchestra Leader Archie Bleyer, Trombonist Sy Shaffer...
Florenz Ziegfeld was named vice president and art director of Golding Fabrics Corp. President of the company is Edwin I. Golding, oldtime silkman, onetime president of Stehli Fabrics Corp. Treasurer is Herbert Bleyer, past president of Doucet et Cie. In the trade Silkman Golding is known as a "superior salesman." The new company will have for its slogan: "Glorifying the American Girl." It will stress designs for a special type of woman. If the woman thinks she looks like a member of the Ziegfeld chorus she will easily find her dress, for each label will give the name...