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Died. Maude Odell, 65, actress who played psalm-singing Bessie Rice in Tobacco Road; of heart disease; in her Manhattan dressing room, during the play's 1,392nd performance. Uninformed of her death until after the last curtain, Jeeter Lester (James Barton) and Ada (Ann Dere) ad-libbed ingeniously, spoke into the wings when addressing missing Sister Bessie...
...dere, Sharlie...
...Goldwyn-Mayer) is violent slapstick with a holocaust of puns. Comedian Jack Pearl takes the Baron Munchausen role he has played for the past 15 months on the radio. To the comedy of the howling lie, the stooge's skepticism and Pearl's definitive reply, "Vass you dere, Sharlie?" have been added Comedian Jimmy Durante and his masochistic schnozzle; Comedian Ted Healy; and three stooges who by the simple device of tirelessly clouting one another are nearly as funny as the Marx Brothers...
...Aunt Sophie who is washing a window, he plunges head-down in the automobile and Durante, with a vulgarity at once extravagantly bold and strangely shy, notes the family resemblance. In a broadcasting studio the fake Baron, innocent of an adventurous past, fakes an outrageous one. His "Vass you dere?" squelches all doubts, hugely amuses his studio audience...
Said Emmanuel Blymyer, his father: "Dere was de old time and now's de new time. In de old time, nobody had no learnin'. Now in de new time, children...