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Courtesy Repaid Long a familiar figure at Manhattan's Roxy Theatre was tattered old Mrs. Edna Morss Allin Elliot. Whenever a new picture was being shown she went to the first showing. Each time she sat in the same front-row seat, decked out in quaint, shabby costumes with leg-o'-mutton sleeves and feather boas. Ten years ago, when Assistant Manager William J. Reilly first noticed her regular attendance, he arranged to have her admitted early to watch the rehearsals of the stage show...
...Married. Edna June Cantor, 19, third of Comedian Eddie Cantor's five daughters, second to be married; and James Francis McHugh Jr., 23, son of Songwriter James (I Love to Whistle) McHugh; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
Little Miss Broadway (Twentieth Century-Fox) pits Shirley Temple's curls and dimples against the lengthy, dour countenance of Edna May Oliver. To win over a fitful Manhattan millionairess is child's play for Shirley, who has spent her precocious career winning over a variety of toughs, misanthropes, hard-hearted colonels and capricious sea captains...
...routine or a Walter Bullock-Harold Spina song. She is adopted by a lackadaisical Broadway character (Edward Ellis), who runs a seedy hotel for vaudeville actors. After a while, the exuberance of Jimmy Durante and his five-man orchestra get on the nerves of the lady next door (Edna May Oliver). She owns the hotel, but when she tries to evict the vaudevillians she runs up against Shirley. Shirley captivates the old lady by singing Swing Me an Old Fashioned Song...
...Mirror Winchell became increasingly staccato, informative and readable. He developed the Monday column (sub-headed "This Town of Ours," later "Man About Town") which made a specialty of entertaining and impudent eavesdropping ("Edna St. Vincent Millay, the love poem writer, just bought a new set of store teeth"). He invented "welded," "sealed" and "middle aisled" to mean married, "renovated," "wilted" and "have phffft" for parted or divorced. And a glimmering interest in politics was evidenced in this item printed in September 1932: " 'Sonny' Whitney has dropped the name of Vanderbilt because 'it is incongruous' . . . Sonny also...