Word: dad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dapper little Pat Rooney took up at Tony Pastor's where his famous dad had left off, danced and sang his way to vaudeville immortality with Rosie O'Grady and a ballad about one Mr. Reilly so enchantingly delivered that everybody has wanted to live Mr. Reilly's life ever since. Last week, 51 years after his debut, and with his own son, Pat Rooney 3rd, now doing his own song-&-dance, platinum-haired Pat Rooney walked into Federal Court in Manhattan, filed petition for bankruptcy. His assets: $252, and a job entertaining at Billy Rose...
Premiere striptease this week, Lois Dc Fee, is advertised as "a six foot glamorous giantess, and every inch a beauty and dazzling personality." Ann Singer ("Her face! Oh! Oh! And her torso more so.") is to be revealed in the near future. The Queen of Beantown Burlesque since your Dad's college days, Ann Corio, is doing war relief work. Her local agent quotes her as declaring, "I'd give the skirt off--" but let the bare facts speak for themselves...
...third fleet, the Asiatic, last week kept a wary eye cocked on Japan and the combustible China coast. But the shake-up did not shake it much. Still flying his flag on the flagship Augusta was 63-year-old Admiral Thomas Charles Hart, whom fellow Annapolis cadets called "Dad" (because he had a baby face). Wise in the ways of the Orient, Tommy Hart has only five months to go to retirement, has done too good a job to be pulled out before his time...
...Dad and Bud were out making some pictures when they became separated for a while. Dad was charged by a rhino and was gored in the right thigh...
...first shot found its mark but the rhino did not fall until it had got him. Even after it had gored him and it fell across his legs, he kept firing until his gun was empty. It just happened that where it got him it broke the artery. Dad lived only for an hour and a half...