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...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...
...Fanny Brice, radio's famed brattish Baby Snooks, is also an ardent collector of artistic "Snooksology"−drawings and paintings by children. Like paintings by the insane, paintings by children, she believes, are often inspired by a freshness of visual impact and a perception of significant detail which other artists lose by remaining sane and growing up. Last week young & old Baltimoreans could see what Miss Brice means, at an exhibit of 41 drawings and paintings selected from more than 100 "masterpieces" by children, which for 20-odd years she has been assembling in Europe...
...charm of many of Miss Brice's pictures was due to the children's intense observation of minutiae-the weave of fabrics, the crisp precision of leaves against the sky. Strangely enough, only one of the pictures showed an airplane, perhaps because most of the collection was assembled so long before...