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...Others: Frank R. Fageol, president of Twin Coach Co., Crooner Morton Downey, Nassau Real Estate Man Harold Christie, Manhattan Architect John Sloan, Treasurer of the Banco Fiduciario de Mexico John R. O'Connor, Engineer Gustavo L. Trevino of Mexico City, President William O'Neil of General Tire & Rubber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Strange Bedfellows | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

...director, Sturges converted this unpretentious plot into a happy, slightly noisy comedy with a Chaplinesque background of pathos. He ably remodeled Powell from the vacuous crooner of Warner Brothers musicals into a convincing prototype of a drudge with a dream of sudden wealth with which he can buy his mother a convertible settee and his girl a fancy wedding. Pale-faced, canyon-mouthed Ellen Drew, a onetime Hollywood soda clerk, was coached into a realistic likeness of a sugary, $18-a-week stenographer. A good dramatist, Sturges kept his characters credible by the simple but neglected technique of letting them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 21, 1940 | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

...five other onetime champions who teed off in the 44th annual U. S. Amateur golf tournament. They powdered their noses while Defending Champion Bud Ward, generally considered the best amateur in the U. S., split the fairway with his drive. The golfer they had gone to see was Crooner Bing Crosby, whose habitual air of mild surprise never fitted him better than when he found himself among 150 topnotchers who had qualified for the national championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Deadeye Dick | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...Crooner Crosby may have drawn the largest gallery (it included Joe Louis). But he did not play the best golf. "Those cups looked smaller than shrunken thimbles," he moaned, as he posted 160 (83-77) for the opening 36-hole medal round, five strokes too many to qualify him for the match play that determines the champion. Left to uphold the honor of the crooners' guild was Richard D. ("Dick") Chapman, 29-year-old New York and Pinehurst socialite, whose nightclub warbling has been more lark than livelihood. Playboy Chapman turned in the best medal score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Deadeye Dick | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...newly paired comedy team of Bing Crosby and Bob Hope meets up with Dorothy Lamour. Miss Lamour (whose leggily revealing sarong turns out never to have been a sarong, but a sinjang) is earning her way with a gay little dance number in which she gets bull-whipped. Crooner Crosby, the lyric son of a businessman, has an irrepressible urge to be a beachcomber. He and Bob Hope take Miss Lamour beachcombing with them. Bing Crosby sings one song (Kaigoon) in Esperanto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

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