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Cinemafans who had hoped for a peep at the off-stage life of Crooner Powell and wife, who have been married five years, possess two children, will have to wait. Their performance indicates that they are thoroughly accustomed to each other. Mother and Father Powell have 124 scenes together. In all but 15 they bicker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Apr. 28, 1941 | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

Says he: "A crooner gets his quota of sentimentality with half his natural voice. That's a great saving. I don't like to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Groaner | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

...Abbott). Since he came of age, John O'Hara has spent more time in nightclubs than many men have in bed. He has stayed till closing, seen all the sights, heard all the jargon. His short novel Pal Joey consists of the magnificently illiterate letters of a nightclub crooner and hoofer, an attractive, low and decidedly rubbery heel, describing his greedy world of mice and moola (women and money). Perhaps the most laudable thing about this character is that he might not betray the mice for the moola-but one can't be sure. Joey has now become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 6, 1941 | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

...born Charles E. Perkins, who had kept on raising polo ponies and show horses during California's lean years, began to enlarge their stud farms. Newcomers like Cinemagnate Louis B. Mayer, Lawyer Neil McCarthy and Automan Charles S. Howard imported the best English thoroughbreds that money could buy.* Crooner Bing Crosby imported expensive South American horses. Between Los Angeles and San Francisco, 200-odd stud farms sprang up, ranging from backyard paddocks like Clark Gable's to $1,000,000 ranches like Harry Warner's-where a mountainside was moved to give his pets a whiff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Golden Gate | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

...late as last May, Scribner's Commentator had as its top name-writers Playwright J. P. McEvoy, Crooner Kate Smith, Comedian Fred Allen. But in August it burst forth with Charles Lindbergh on the cover, a flattering story about Lindbergh inside, pieces on the New Deal's international sympathies and "warmongers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Isolationist Organ | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

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