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Last week Hollywood Gabster Jimmie Fidler tried to take to the CBS air with a bit of advice for a pair of cinemastars. He wanted to tell Laraine Day she had made a mistake in vacating her perdurable role as the nurse in the Dr. Kildare series, and to adjure George Brent not to go around explaining why he wouldn't marry bouncy Ann Sheridan. Promptly CBS censors decided the items were on the dubious side, suggested he toss them out of his script. Thereupon Fidler asked his sponsor, the Tayton Co. (cosmetics), to cancel his contract so that...
Like most gossips, Jimmie Fidler, onetime extra, onetime editor of Screenland, does not underestimate his own importance. As soon as he broke with CBS, he prepared an official statement, lugubriously entitled "Radio Censorship Unbearable," sent it to FCC Chairman J. Lawrence Fly, and Senators like Wheeler & Nye. His chief gripe: CBS wouldn't let him rate pictures (according to a chromatic scheme running from "No bells" for rotten to "Four bells" for a smash) the way he wanted to. Moaned...
...Hollywood reporters he moaned more. He mentioned sadly an occasion a few weeks back when he was prevented from quoting a piece in Photoplay in which one "Fearless" complained that Myrna Loy had "stenographer's spread," Gary Cooper and James Stewart spindle legs. Fidler also pointed out that one of his aerial "editorials" against war propaganda in the films had been squelched...
...available in the Bruin football camp. According to Stahley, who has already been down to Providence to meet some of the players, he has a veteran backfield returning next fall which includes Captain Ernie Sauvignon and star fullback Dick High; ends Preistley, Delaney and McNeil; and linemen Soloway, Corzine, Fidler, Rotelli, Sheehan, Down and Crooker...
Back home other columnists heard of Lolly's killing, and before long she had male competitors in the field as Ed Sullivan and Jimmie Fidler set out with junkets of their own. Neither packed them in, but Fidler drew $3,500 weekly for his trouble, Sullivan...