Word: brice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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COCKS AND BULLS IN CARACAS - Olga Briceño - Houghton Mifflin ($2.75). Pleasantly humorous and non-statistical report on Caracas life, its houses, court ships, saints and social institutions by a Venezuelan correspondent and lecturer...
...first Aquacade, in Cleveland ("I'll use Lake Erie for a stage and Canada as a backdrop"), was going to turn a swimming meet into a musicomedy. The second Aquacade, at the New York World's Fair, starred Eleanor Holm, whom -just as soon as Fanny Brice divorced him-Rose was going to marry. But for the war, Rose would probably have gone through with his sky show-"a chorus of 64 planes," the orchestra in one captive blimp, a glee club in another, and "70,000 spectators" on the ground...
...nice legs, a pretty wit and good lungs : Ginger Rogers, Hedda Hopper, Rosalind Russell, Cecil B. de Mille, Anne Baxter, Leo Carrillo and Adolphe Menjou. So did the Hollywood Committee of New Dealers: Rita Hayworth, Olivia de Havilland, Katharine Hepburn, Orson Welles, Harpo Marx, Lana Turner, Walter Huston, Fanny Brice...
Baby Snooks had grown old. So had Fanny Brice, who mothered the brash radio moppet a generation ago and has made a consistently good living out of her (radio salary: $5,000 a week). Said Fanny, now 52: "When you get old, you have to worry. You might get ooglie-booglie." With this thought in mind, Fanny last week trotted out a new character on her new Post Toasties show (CBS, Sun., 6:30 p.m., E.W.T...
...Listen, Kid!" Irma has been rattling around in Fanny Brice's brain ever since she was Fanny Borach of Forsyth Street, daughter of a saloonkeeper. She had risen to singing dialect songs in the Columbia Burlesque when Florenz Ziegfeld, who knew a good thing, hired her for his Follies. Once, asked about her career, she roared...