Word: brice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. William Samuel Rosenberg (Billy Rose), 40, smart little impresario; and Eleanor Holm Jarrett, 25, World's Fair Aquaqueen; at last, in Manhattan. Fortnight before, he was divorced by Fanny Borach (Fanny Brice...
...start. Apparently assuming that twisted bodies mean twisted souls, they writhed like the Laocoon group. A revolutionary solemnly announced that only a small part of the human race have their heads cut off. The villain twitched about the stage like Mephistopheles with a tic. The audience half expected Fannie Brice to burst in, roll her eyes, and mutter as she did of yore: "It is always c-o-old in Roosia...
...back to deir poo. The publishers, wary of overplugging Three Little Fishies, withheld it from all but a few big orchestral names-Hal Kemp, Guy Lombardo, Kay Kyser, Paul Whiteman, each of whom recorded it. The song was plugged on the radio by Mildred Bailey, Fannie Brice, Judy Starr. Along with the itty fitties, fat Saxie Dowell fam into such fame that he is now thinking of leaving Hal Kemp and starting a band...
...hoping cinema, running into an injunction is as painful and prohibitive as tripping over a bat on the way to first. Fortnight ago Jules W. Arndt Stein (Nicky Arnstein), the husband who filled Fannie Brice's heart when she first sang the torch song My Man in 1920, sued for an injunction (and $250,000 damages) against the Twentieth Century-Fox cinema Rose of Washington Square, a take-off on Nicky's & Fannie's lives (TIME, June 5). This week, beating out the injunction by a nose, the studio attorneys got together with Nicky, settled his claim...
...Producer Zanuck's Rose of Washington Square, in which Alice Faye redeems her swindler husband, Tyrone Power, by singing My Man from a Ziegfeld stage, wondered whether his foot had not slipped again (TIME, May 15). For My Man was introduced in 1920 by Ziegfeld Star Fannie Brice, when her second husband, Nicky Arnstein, was a fugitive on a swindling charge. After seeing Rose of Washington Square, Fannie Brice saw her lawyer. Last week from the owner of a sorer toe came a loud squeal...