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...hour of the Colvin School for Girls into a swing session. Sent home to the jittery bosom of a family infected with the slightly threadbare lunacy which has been bothering recent cinema families, she croons her way to a career with the help of Olga, a screwball maid (Fanny Brice), and Ricky (Allan Jones), a singing chef. Best of the Kaper-Jurmann tunes: Swing, Mr. Mendelssohn. Best Fanny Brice number: Quainty Dainty Me with her famed spirit-of-spring technique...
...rules on the way to the 1936 Olympic Games, she made $30,000 swimming in Showman Billy Rose's Cleveland Exposition last summer. In November she and Rose said they would marry as soon as they could get divorces, she from Crooner Art Jarrett, he from Comedienne Fanny Brice. Of diminutive, 36-year-old Billy, said Eleanor: "He's got everything Robert Taylor...
Died. Edith Newbold Jones Wharton, 75, novelist; after an apoplectic stroke; at her villa near Saint-Brice-Sous-Forêt, France. Edith Jones was born into a socially prominent New York family which discouraged her early attempts at writing, although when she was 15 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow had some of her poems published in the Atlantic Monthly. In 1885 she married Edward Wharton, Boston banker, whom she later divorced. Her first fiction, The Greater Inclination appeared in 1899. In 1906, like her friend and idol, Henry James, she went abroad to live. Three years later she wrote her famed...
After several hours of oratory the meeting broke up peacefully. Meanwhile in Monroe, guardsmen (including a local howitzer company under Captain Brice C. Custer, great-nephew of General George A. Custer, who spent much of his early life in Monroe) stood watch. Only excitement to break the Sabbath calm was when Governor Murphy stopped in the town to attend church and visit St. Mary's College...
...last week it was abundantly clear that Fanny Brice's big little husband,Billy Rose, merits some title-other than pressagents' superlatives-to indicate his uniqueness as a showman. "Fair Doctor" might serve, with the understanding that the exposition managements which seek his services are not necessarily sick but simply want the shot-in-the-arm of financial confidence which the Rose technique provides. Last year when the Texas Centennial fair got under way at Dallas, Doctor Rose was called in by Fort Worth and encouraged, with a contract paying $1,000 a day for 100 days (TIME...