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Died. Anne Nichols, 69, playwright, who in 1922 wrote and produced her one success, a schmalzy-darlin' situation comedy about the marriage of a Jewish boy and a Catholic girl titled Abie's Irish Rose, which ran for a record 2,327 performances on Broadway*and earned her, all told, an estimated $15 million, most of which she lost in the 1929 stock-market crash; of a heart attack; in an Englewood Cliffs, N.J., nursing home, where her fees were paid by the Actors' Fund, a charity for indigent theater people...
...DOES THAT GRAB YOU? (Reprise). Nancy Sinatra, on the other hand, is growling up. She surrounds her hit single, How Does That Grab You, Darlin'?, with a battery of cool and cruel items like Sorry 'Bout That and Baby Cried All Night...
...voice, as she freely admits, is as awful as her father's was good-a circumstance that in the world of pop has hurt her not one whit. With such best-selling noises as How Does That Grab You, Darlin'?, Nancy Sinatra, 25, can now claim to have made it in her own right. In fact, she does so well pressing platters that she is now hotly pursuing another pop line of work. In Manhattan with her mother Nancy, 47, Frankie's daughter witnessed the world premiere of her first starring film, The Last of the Secret...
Divorced. Merle Travis, 46, hillbilly singing star and songwriter, (Sixteen Tons and I'm Sick and Tired of You, Little Darlin'); by Bettie Lou Travis, 40; on uncontested grounds of mental cruelty; after eight years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...
...humor. He probably shouts simply to obscure his brogue which is obscure, but my goodness, man, that's no way to tell a joke. Kenneth Tigar shouts his jokes too, but that's because he realizes they are all basically the same joke (he is asked to call everything "Darlin'") and politely tries to hide the fact. (Teuber, incidentally, has been made up to look like a cross between Pinocchio's father, Charley Weaver of the Jack Paar show, and Angelo Winemaker of the TV commercials...