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...spice to Bisbee's colorful career, a few stand out prominently. Early this fall, Bisbee was seized by an over-powering passion to write lyrics. Answering an add in Motion Picture Magazine, he wrote, "I have been thinking about composing a peppy, collegiate song with a racy, ha-cha-cha chorus." Almost immediately he received a reply from Henry Cohen, chief of staff, to the effect "whether you write for play of pay, you are to be encouraged because it shows a lofty thought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Suicide of L. Donovan Bisbee, Hoax and Snake-in-the -Grass, Marks End of Lurid Career--Creators To Return To Books | 2/7/1933 | See Source »

...turn out to be when they grow up. Typical shot: Nasa (Clara Bow), insulted in a café, hurling a plate with one hand and striking a waiter with the other. Confessed Actress Bow when she arrived in Manhattan last week: "I'm getting older, and hot-cha doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 5, 1932 | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

...Budget was written by Robert Middlemass (The Valiant), who should have known better. It dealt topically with hard times in a small town, smiled bravely at Depression. In the cast were Lynne Overman (comedian of Hot Cha!) and pretty Mary Lawlor (Good News), now the wife of Shortstop Lyn Lary of the champion New York Yankees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Obituary | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

Nathaniel Lief and others; Haring & Del Bondio, producers) is not accompanied, as in the Of Thee I Sing lyric, with much hot-cha-cha. Instead, favoring the old Garrick Gaieties it runs to intellectual-looking chorus girls, bright antics, satire. Among its performers are cherubic Jerry Norris (an old Gaieties boy), Dorothy McNulty, Ann Seymour. Librettists and lyricists of the revue include Ogden Nash, Will Irwin, Frank Sullivan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays: Jun. 20, 1932 | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

...Dogs? I love dogs. Have four of them. One's an Aberdeen named "Hot Cha Lavinia. I also like music. In fact, I started out as a singer. My study at the Boston Conservatory makes me feel quite at home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Acting in "Mourning Becomes Electra" Worse Than Running In a Marathon, Says Alice Brady--I's Not Affected Morbidly | 4/22/1932 | See Source »

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