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...more pleasant things about Morgan is that he is unlike other radio comedians who seem to aim their programs at the category Life forgot--the no-brows. He eschews the Wilshire Boulevard school of humor, where in an ether buffoon sends a studio audience into unrestrained hysterics at the mere mention of a name such as "Wilshire Boulevard" of "La Brea tarpits." Nor does he open closet doors to the accompanyment of a eacophony of sound effects. If he is going to insult somebody he doesn't call him "baldy...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, | Title: From the Pit | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...nose tip from a Hollywood embrace. To Communist eyes this appeared "as bright and shiny as a toilet soap advertisement." In cutting the bulky novel by approximately two-thirds, gritted the Literary Gazette, the "American barbarians" had reduced Tolstoy's classic to a "him-and-her" boulevard romance, made Vronsky "an indisputable frequenter of dancing halls, and . . . [Anna] . . . probably a typist from Hearst's secretariat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Jackets, Straight & Glossy | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Gloria Swanson, 50, high-styled, onetime queen of the silent screen, had not yet faded from the Hollywood scene; she was back to act in a picture called Sunset Boulevard, her first movie in eight years. Her new role: a fading queen of the silent screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 7, 1949 | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

Grinned bespectacled Harvey Brooks, who is still playing "a very quiet piano" in a neighborhood bar on the corner of Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard and Western Avenue: "Just like finding $100,000 . . . L'il Bird isn't nothin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Salady Days | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...trial is expected to take place the end of this month in Sofia's massive grey stone Palace of Justice on the Boulevard Stalin. Remarked one observer of Communist methods: "The confessions will be read and each witness will be asked if he said that. The movies will be there. They will make this thing a big spectacle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICIES & PRINCIPLES: War on Faith | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

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