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...Hollywood's best character actors, brogueish Barry (Going My Way) Fitzgerald, took to NBC's air last week on his first program. The new weekly series (His Honor, the Barber, Tues. 7:30-8 p.m., E.S.T.) he appeared in was fashioned of homespun, with an expensive tailor's touch. The character he plays is sure fire for cornfed philosophizing: a small-town judge who doubles in hair-clipping. The resemblance between this new series and another well-wearing job cut to the same cloth, radio's 13-year-old One Man's Family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Barbours to Barber | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

Still handsome at 45, tall, black-haired, brogueish, magnetic Rex Ingram prefers tequila to Scotch, smokes pipes and cigars, hates to ride in airplanes, says he needs very little money to get along on. To people who ask him if he doesn't get bored with so little work to do, Rex Ingram replies that he only started to work when he quit his job in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Romantic's Return | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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