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...Maine aggregation is for the most part a veteran nine, and Coach Brice expects his charges to make a good showing against the Crimson despite their comparative lack of practice. At least six of the visiting starting team have had intercollegiate experience in the past, and it will require excellent pitching to keep these sluggers in doubt is the hurling assignment and check...
Kibitzer. Fannie Brice, playing Cleopatra, once described herself as "a bad woman but good company." Kibitzer is that sort of play. Structurally it has its weaknesses, but as an evening's entertainment there is no better bargain of its kind on Broadway at the moment. It is a Jewish Lightnin...
Married. Fannie' Brice (real name: Borach), 37, famed Jewish comédienne (Ziegfeld Follies, Music Box Revue, Fio-retta), onetime wife of famed bond-thief "Nicky" Arnstein; and Billy Rose (real name: Rosenberg), 29, Manhattan song writer (Barney Google, Me and My Shadow); in New York City Hall, by Mayor James John Walker. Songwriter Rose offered the Mayor $1, promised him another if the marriage was successful...
Best current cinemas arranged (A) according to merit, (B) according to the money they made last fortnight. (A) The Wind-Storm of sand and emotions around Lillian Gish. My Man- Fanny Brice on the sound-device. The Shopworn Angel-A doughboy's love for a girl who loves dough. The Rescue- Scenic adventure from Conrad's novel. Alias Jimmy Valentine-Lionel Barrymore as a detective in the best talking picture to date. The Case of Lena Smith -Tragedy of a Viennese blonde, beautifully filmed. The Barker-Audible circus. (B) The Singing Fool, records everywhere; The Terror...
Born Borach, daughter of a French Jew who ran saloons in Newark, Brooklyn and Manhattan, Fannie Brice was romantic partly because she was homely and awkward. When she got a job in a department store she pretended she was starving and her father was blind; when the girls and the floor superintendent gave her presents and money, she laughed and said that she was only fooling. At Keeney's Vaudeville House in Brooklyn when she was 13 she won $10 on amateur night singing "When You Know You're Not Forgotten by the Girl...