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...still an amusing one. If The Show-Off seems protracted now, it seemed already diluted in 1924, for in an earlier and more brilliant form it was a vaudeville sketch. But its best bits are among the funniest of all tilting at windbags. The strutting $32.50-a-week clerk, who is neither cowed by the law he flouts nor squelched by the mother-in-law he infuriates, is most alive when most farcical. Lee Tracy plays him with noisy but un-brutal gusto, making him far more ham than horror...
...Darryl Zanuck made his movie debut playing an Indian maiden on an early lot at $1 a day. That was just eleven years after his birth on Sept. 5, 1902, in Wahoo, Neb. (pop. 3,300). Worried about his health, his Methodist parents-Frank Zanuck, an Iowa-born hotel clerk of Swiss parentage and Louise Torpin Zanuck, a Nebraskan of English stock-moved to Los Angeles when Darryl was six. His mother cut his early movie career short as soon as she caught sight of him in Indian costume...
Orders approved by the Council on Monday are not usually set up by the Clerk of Court to be distributed until Wednesday...
...learned his English on the West Coast during a 19-year visit to his immigrant father. Working first as a railway laborer and store clerk, he later majored dramatics at the University of Washington and played bit parts in a few Hollywood movies. He went back to Japan with his wife Yoneko when her U.S. entry permit expired in 1937. As a Japanese radio announcer, Joe worked in the same matchbox-sized studio with Tokyo Rose. But "she was an American citizen undermining the morale of U.S. troops," he explains disapprovingly. Then he adds: "I was a Japanese citizen merely...
Married. Judith Coplon, 29, former Justice Department clerk, twice convicted of espionage; and Albert H. Socolov, 29, member of the law firm preparing her appeal; in Brooklyn...