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With just the merest hint of deviltry in his roving eye, Vag waited for the big event of the day at Braves Field. It was Reading Period, but so what! Encased in his now rather shoddy seersucker jacket, with a Chesterfield protruding not at all jauntily from his mouth, he waited while a man in a double-breasted suit walked onto the field. Today, of all things foolish, they were going to raffle off a '47 Packard, and what was more silly, he was waiting around on the hope that he would win it. Of course he never won anything...
Fildes (rhymes with shields) would not have been too surprised. In the daguerreotypes of his heyday, Sir Luke looked like any well-fed Victorian gent, complete with goatee, chesterfield, and top hat. But he was more: a member of England's Royal Academy and a painter of royalty, including Edward VII, Queen Alexandra and George...
...Chesterfield Supper Club (Mon. 7 p.m., NBC). Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller Orchestra...
...responsibility. Now, when bands and nightclubs were dropping like overripe apples in a high wind, Tex keeps a payroll of more than 40 busy at a weekly overhead of $9,200. He is making no fortune at it, but a new radio contract with Miller's old sponsor, Chesterfield cigarets, will help to foot the bill. Drawled Tex: "I don't know whether Glenn figured that times would be as tough...
Evelyn stayed at the Blue Angel for her customary three years, began building a radio name with appearances on the Lanny Ross Show, the Chesterfield Supper Club, the Bourjois Powder Box Theater, et al. Last week, the buildup paying off big, she mused: "I sometimes wonder why I studied singing. I became such a huge success when I stopped using my voice...