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Died. Leon Errol, 70, veteran stage & screen comedian; of a heart attack; in Hollywood. Equipped with collapsible legs and an elastic face which he contorted into caricatures of exasperation, bewilderment, bliss or imbecility, he played most often the part of a tottering drunk. In Australia, where he was born, he...
His throne was an ordinary armchair in claret-colored upholstery, his garb a spotless white shirt and beige ankle-length robe, elastic-sided boots, and a white turban wound around his head, one end hanging rakishly loose in Hejaz style. Once Abdullah installed a set of distorting mirrors in the...
The newcomer was a similar animal (also patented) called Puppy Tu (because he eats with you) put out by Chicago's Crest Specialty Co. Crying patent infringement, Topic Toys brought suit against Crest Specialty-and won. But Crest fought the case all the way up to the Supreme Court...
Hanslick began to find Wagner "neither a great musician nor a great poet. He can be called at best . . . a decorative genius." His instrumentation, the critic wrote, "with its clever use of tone colors and its elastic application to the text . . . is what makes Wagner's music seem dazzlingly...
After over 4½ years of writing his breezy, brassy columns, Billy Rose this week called it quits. In his farewell, Rose wrote: "I may feel differently about it one of these days, but as of this writing-propped up in bed and with a magnum of morphine sloshing around...