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To each other and to their friends George Burns and Gracie Allen are "Nat" and "Googie." George was born Nat Birnbaum, one of twelve children of a Manhattan East Side clothing manufacturer. At 11 he was on the stage, giving imitations of stage stars he had never seen. Gracie danced...
AS the old order changeth, there are a few who look upon the metamorphosis not casually, not with a coldly historic eye, not in blissful ignorance, but with an interested appraisal of the change which allows them to evaluate the evolution, and to predict the outcome. Such is the unknown...
Readers of Sergeant Grischa will remember Hero Bertin as the intellectual military clerk whose sympathy for Grischa was horrified, heartfelt and ineffectual. Here Bertin is shown in palmier days. At the outbreak of the War he was a pale but ambitious youth, a promising author with no money, living in...
From such blissful ruminations he traveled on to Vienna where he arrived ''too late." Frau Sacher, proprietress of the city's most famed restaurant had died, leaving Author Hergesheimer with only second-rate objectives. He made the most of Vienna's 38 varieties of coffee, all "superlative," but concluded that...
Readers of Author Zweig's novelties will realize, to their horror, that the forsaken female of mid-Victorian romances is alive & kicking yet. The only modern touch about her reappearance is that she is deflowered by a hero who does not bother to ask her name. Famed Novelist R...