Word: brice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sued for Divorce. "Nicky" Arnstein, famed bond-thief and gam- bling-house-man, by Actress Fanny Brice. For years she sang a song, Mon Homme, with the line, "For whatever my man is, I am his forevermore...
Jules W. ("Nicky") Arnstein (onetime convict for complicity m a $5,000,000 bond theft; husband ot Actress Fanny Brice) visited Chicago, registered at a hotel as "J. W. Arnold," was arrested just on general principles," was released when victims of recent Chicago confidence games recognized him as not being their deceiver. He explained he had come to confer with his onetime cellmate at Leavenworth Penitentiary, Tim" Murphy, about a flashlight signal device in which they are interested...
...picked up the informal New York World by mistake. But no, it was indeed the New York Times. Strange! Something certainly had come over that fatherly, dignified compendium, something that began perhaps, when the Times cracked its joke, amazing because so unexpected, about Fannie Brice's nose three years ago† something that was again evident when, last summer, the Times departed from its rule against "features" and began printing the labored wit of Funnyman Will Rogers (TIME, Aug. 16). The Times, patrician of the press, was stooping to the popular...
...have many points of similarity. It was vastly entertaining to find, in reading the old comedies, that the authors were using the same tricks, the same jokes, as are common in our vaudeville, burlesque, and musical shows. Business which we associate with Chaplin, Jolson, Tinney, Bobby Clark, Fannie Brice, and the Four Marx Brothers, was invented by the Harlequins and Sganarellos of the Venetian comedy; subjects which are treated in full page advertisements today, were touched off in light repartee on the trestles and boards of Italy two and a half centuries ago. All I have done, in many instances...
...Fanny-Brice...