Word: earl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best talent in the show is droll Will Mahoney. With a hammer on each shoe and a sad expression on his face he makes music by dancing on a giant xylophone? the ''Mahoneyphone.'' Chicago theatre-goers saw this act tried out last year in Earl Carroll's Sketchbook...
...consequence of a birthday party which Producer Carroll gave Banker Edrington that Producer Carroll was sent to Atlanta Penitentiary for perjury in 1927. It was also as a consequence of the birthday party (the producer denied that a girl had sat naked in a tub of wine) that Earl Carroll became a national character...
...Earl Carroll was born in Pittsburgh 39 years ago. He quit school when he was 10, became a program boy in the local theatres. At 16 he set out for the Orient, knocked about Shanghai, Canton, Hongkong. When he got home he began writing plays and song lyrics. He wrote the lyrics for the late great Enrico Caruso's "Dreams of Long Ago." Then Oliver Morosco called him out to California to write the music and lyrics for the oldtime hit So Long Letty. After that he wrote Eddie Cantor's first musical comedy, Canary Cottage. By the time...
...Atlanta penitentiary nearly killed him. After he was released, a prison friend came to see him. The man kept looking at his watch. "I find myself doing this all the time," he said. "I get a mental picture of what the other prisoners are doing." Like his paroled friend, Earl Carroll, too, is always looking at his watch...
...swimmer: the annual women's ten-mile marathon on Lake Ontario, near Toronto, which she won for the first time a year ago. Her mother, watching the race from shore, was congratulated on her daughter's ability by a famed seagoing spectator, British Admiral of the Fleet Earl Jellicoe...