Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Glory. Actress Hayes' "cute" period fused with her more mature phase in Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra. The Serpent of the Nile was her first regal impersonation. Notwithstanding Columnist Franklin Pierce Adams' crack that she was suffering from "fallen archness," Miss Hayes still maintains: "I felt that my tiny Cleopatra was just right. It seemed to me that Shaw meant her to be a gay young numbskull.'' It seemed that way to the theatre going public, too, for Caesar and Cleopatra had a long and prosperous run. The god Broadway was beginning to give...
...descended New Deal-hating Publisher Paul Block. From the Pullman descended New Deal-hating Publisher William Randolph Hearst, who arrived to look for the first time on the homely face of the man he began edging toward the White House three months ago. With "The Chief" was his Columnist Arthur Brisbane. From the other private car descended the editor of the Hearst Washington Herald, Mrs. Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson. At the ornate, yellow and white Governor's mansion they and a group of Kansas editors and publishers including Senator Arthur Capper, got a warm welcome from black-eyed, young...
...strong chin, which means determination," puffed Arthur Brisbane in his column next day, "and a forehead to balance it." But most of old Columnist Brisbane's enthusiasm was reserved for Nancy Jo Landon, 3. Burbled he: "It is hard to understand why Governor Landon should bother with politics, possessing such a daughter. Nothing in nature is as beautiful as a little girl, and this is a marvelously beautiful little girl. . . . She may be the first woman President...
Widow Leslie has long written a daily editorial for the News under her own name, and many a hoaxed reader sends Columnist Nancy Brown messages and gifts to hand to Editorial Writer Leslie. At 65 she is a small, plump person, shy, softspoken, white-haired. She belongs to the Unitarian Church, lives at No. 1224 Glynn Court, Detroit...
Meantime all Detroit has asked, "Who is Nancy Brown?" Years ago the News's editors concluded that the best way to build up their columnist as a circulation-puller was to make a mystery of her identity. They have continued to whet Detroit's curiosity by creating around Nancy Brown's real name as titillating a hocus-pocus as that which made the reputations of The Man in the Iron Mask and radio's Your Lover. At her parties and religious services she mingles anonymously with the crowd. Only a few of her Column Folks have...