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...occasion of Julius Klorfein's purchase was not unpremeditated. A perceptive young woman named Edna Skinner, actress, radio commentator, fashion model, now a member of the A.W.V.S., heard that Mr. Klorfein had bought $500,000 worth of war bonds recently during a trip to Florida. She thought it would be fine if he could double that in Gimbels' Bargain Basement. Julius Klorfein agreed...
...written from Missouri to Alexander Woollcott, who had died in the interim (TIME, Feb. 1). Wrote 70-year-old Actress Adams: "The Empire is so dear to me it is difficult to speak of her. It seems almost like praising one's mother." Sixty-nine-year-old Edna Wallace Hopper (looking incredibly young) and 76-year-old Cyril Scott played a scene from The Girl I Left Behind Me in which they had appeared on the Empire's opening night...
...Author Edna Ferber, he was a "New Jersey Nero who mistook his pinafore for a toga." To Novelist Charles Brackett, he seemed "a competent old horror with a style that combined clear treacle and pure black bile." Critic Percy Hammond found him "a mountainous jelly of hips, jowls and torso [but with] brains sinewy and athletic." Caustic Wit Dorothy Parker thought that he did "more kindness" than anyone she had ever known...
...Died. Edna Hibbard, 47, stage comedienne; in Manhattan. She made her biggest hit as Dorothy, the mercenary brunette companion of the mercenary blonde Lorelei Lee in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes...
Daughter of a Negro actress named Edna Scotchron, 25-year-old Lena Horne was graduated from Brooklyn Girls' High School into a job as a chorus girl in an Ethel Waters show at Manhattan's Cotton Club. She was put in big time by a spell at Hollywood's Little Troc cabaret. Her first film appearance, a sequence in Panama Hattie, proved the high point of a dull show. She continued as Georgia Brown in the cinema version of Broadway's Cabin in the Sky, and is scheduled for M.G.M.'s Meet the People...