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...second largest asset of his early career came indirectly from vaudeville. He married a Kansas City usherette named Edna Stilwell, a hardheaded girl who managed his business affairs so well that she continued to do so for five years after they were divorced and he married Girl-about-Hollywood Georgia Davis. But even as Edna helped guide him toward the stability of oil wells and real estate holdings (he even owns his own film studio now), she could not overcome his deeper fears. According to a friend, Skelton feels that vague assailants known as "they" have always been after...
Soundest Proof. Between Edna and Georgia, Skelton filled in with alcohol, but now drinks very little and does not smoke, although he almost always has a cigar with him and manages to chew up some 25 to 30 stogies a day. Nor does he gamble-in public-since that might disillusion his followers. When he is in Las Vegas, the hotel management installs a slot machine in his room, last month turned back to him $350 he had lost while playing his enormously successful engagement at The Sands...
...Palace (Warner) is the sort of film that will be described by misogynists as a good women's picture. The tearful vapidity of Edna Ferber's outsize novel about Alaska is faithfully reflected. Troths are plighted ("Would you, could you . . ."), then blighted ("Doesn't my happiness mean anything to you?"). Love goes unrequited; yet, by adroit plotting, there is plenty of childbirth, all of it calamitous. And as the plot perambulates through three generations, the Kleenex-crumpling goes on and on for the better part of three hours...
Actor Ryan's plane has crashed on a glacier. Will Actor Burton rescue his enemy before Warner Bros, runs out of celluloid? A more chilling question, for everyone except possibly the inhabitants of Rhode Island: After Texas (Giant) and Alaska, where will Edna Ferber strike next...
...Edna St. Vincent Millay-vied eagerly for the honor of contributing to his column. These guest appearances, combined with his own fey wit, earned him a tidy salary-at one time $25,000 a year-and a wide following. The Adams circle grew by millions after he joined radio's renowned Information Please quiz program in 1938, along with Clifton Fadiman, John Kieran and Oscar Levant...