Word: gossiper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prancing into Manhattan's Loew's State theatre last fortnight went all that is left of big-time U. S. vaudeville. It was a troupe of seven energetic young cinemactors and actresses led by a columnist-Hearst's triple-threat Hollywood gossip dispenser, roly-poly Louella O. ("Lolly") Parsons. On this, her second cross-country junket, Lolly Parsons was again proving that a columnist's best business is his vaudeville, that vaudeville's best business is its columnists...
Along with the usual standbys of a fan magazine (reviews, gossip, puffs), Stage will present each month words and music of a new song, full text of a current Broadway show. November's play: The Man Who Came To Dinner. Regular contributors are Alexander Woollcott, Clare Booth, William Saroyan...
...Publisher Ince. Born Sandor Incze, a native of Cluj (restored to Hungary last month by Adolf Hitler), he started out as a law clerk, newspaper reporter, smalltime aviation promoter. In Cluj, when he was 19, Publisher Ince founded his first theatre journal: a weekly magazine of programs and gossip, Theatre News. The local stock company changed its bill each night, charged 5? for programs. Young Ince sold his sheet for 3? saved readers from 2? to 27? a week...
...jumped Montana's Senator Burt Wheeler to second his leader, and to "deplore" a story spread by another team of political gossip columnists, Drew Pearson & Bob Allen, that isolationist Senator Ernest Lundeen was being trailed by FBI agents as a Nazi sympathizer when he died two months ago in a plane crash on a hillside in Virginia. (The Senate appropriated $5,000 to investigate the crash, the story...
...with which Carol II busied his last months as Rumania's King, stands the Athenee Palace Hotel. It is a six-story, 200-room structure with a clean face of white stucco. Some call it the laboratory, some the lavatory, of Balkan politics. Its bar buzzes with political gossip and its marble-pillared lounge teems with blondes, top hats, beards, uniforms and monocles. Being the best hotel in Bucharest, it has always been the favorite hangout of the British...