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Tobin, meanwhile, observed a large number of Young Democrats walking down Massachusetts Avenue, probably thinking that the whole affair was a great flop. He rapped furiously on the car's windows, and this made some of the members turn back. The car drove up without fanfare, with only a handful of passerbys looking on. The Governor go out of the car, and walked alone to the Littauer steps where Sam Huntington, a Government instructor, greeted him. Inside, the library and the offices disgorged a multitude who wished to see "The Governor." He waved. With Tobin tagging behind, Dever mounted...
...celebrated tabloid case of Billy Rose v. Eleanor Holm (TIME, Jan. 14) finally reached the comparative dignity of a jampacked little Manhattan courtroom. As a show it was Rose's biggest flop. He had countered Eleanor's suit for separation by charging her with adultery with five men about town & country, and the billing for the opening show promised the most sensational divorce trial in years. But the presiding judge quickly disappointed the expectant crowd of reporters. He called the principals and their lawyers into his chambers for a 2½-hour talk. When it was over...
...fellow actors had seldom seen and generally resented. One screamed at her: "You're a freak of nature-you'll never last!" She played stock in Baltimore, studied dramatics in New York under Frances Robinson-Duff, landed a bit part in These Days, a Broadway flop. For six months she understudied Hope Williams in Holiday. Sculptor Robert McKnight, who wanted to marry her, took her to the country for an afternoon. She talked so continuously of love, life, art and Katharine Hepburn that he never had a chance to interrupt with his proposal...
Divorcement was an unexpected success. The nation's moviegoers took to the nasal voice, the angular face, the Bryn Mawr accent. Kate's second film, Christopher Strong, was a flop. But then she won an Oscar for her acting of the stagestruck girl in Morning Glory. As Jo in Little Women, her performance was so moving that Tallulah Bankhead knelt to congratulate...
...another and showing his leading men how to sing songs and make love to the leading lady (Jane Wyman), he is throwing gay first-night penthouse parties, where he croons such ditties as Zing a Little Zong. But Widower Bing is so busy being famous that he is a flop with his teen-age children. His daughter (Natalie Wood) winds up in jail with her drunken governess. His adolescent son (Robert Arthur) resents Bing's critical attitude toward his songwriting attempts, and tries to beat his father's time with Jane Wyman...