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Elected. Eddie Cantor, singing funnyman; to be President of the National Vaudeville Artists Association; succeeding Actor-Producer Fred Stone...
...chairman of the Democratic National Committee, as a member of the finance committee of General Motors Corp.* Donaldson Brown of Irvington-on-Hudson, N. Y., was appointed to succeed Mr. Raskob as finance committee chairman. Died. Marjorie Cassidy Baer, 29, of Manhattan, wife of Arthur ("Bugs") Baer, Hearstpaper funnyman; of typhoid fever; in Manhattan...
...Hotel McAlpin. He adopted two Chinese boys, one of whom became his personal ringside and diamondside reporter. Many a drawing made in Great Neck he signed: "Tad, Moscow" or "Tad, Shanghai." His home stood between those of two of his numberless friends, Fisticuffer James J. Corbett, retired, and Funnyman Ring W. Lardner...
George Ade, U. S. funnyman (Fables in Slang, The Sultan of Sulu, etc.) touring the world, reached Manila last week just as the aged Sultan of Sulu came to town. Said the Sultan of Sulu: "I don't know him." Said Author Ade: "Shucks, I wrote a whole musical comedy about him without an introduction. I pictured the Sultan as endowed with a remarkable sense of humor...
TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA OR DAVID COPPERFIELD-Robert Benchley-Holt ($2). Little rambles with Life's funnyman, one of them serious...