Word: brice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main threat to a Crimson victory is the presence of All-American Francis Brice at left inside for the Yale eleven. The Bulldog captain Brice has averaged close to two goals a game, including both of the Eli scores against Princeton last week, and rates as one of the most versatile forwards in the East...
Bach: Sacred Arias (Carol Brice, contralto, with the Columbia Broadcasting Concert Orchestra, Daniel Saidenberg conducting; Columbia, 4 sides). The Agnus Dei and Qui Sedes from the B Minor Mass, and two arias from the Magnificat, warmly sung by a Negro of considerable talent, who is not yet a Marian Anderson. Recording: good...
...Freedman was writing radio scripts for Fanny, and she kept trying to talk him into doing a "Babykins." Finally sold, he wrote the first Baby Snooks script so named. In other words, Snooks is strictly a Fanny Brice creation, says she, and the Library of Congress can go climb a tree...
...Fanny Brice disagrees. Her version: In 1915 a songwriter named Blanche Merrill did a vaudeville sketch for Fanny called "Poor Little Moving-Picture Baby," a burlesque on one of the child stars of the period. Fanny kept this character in mind for 15 years. About 1930 she suggested it to Moss Hart, who wrote a skit for Sweet & Low about an infant known simply as "Babykins." This was, in effect, the first Snooks script. Billy Rose may well have helped Hart, says Fanny...
Eleanor (with the help of four servants) keeps Billy's homes as antiseptically clean as a swimming pool. He calls her "the Sapolio Kid" and "one of the two greatest gals of the century" (the other: Fanny Brice). Eleanor doesn't think much of Billy's paintings, but he takes them as seriously as he has taken all his other equalizers...