Word: gossipers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Radio's glibbest cinemagpie is Jimmy Fidler, whose broadcasts of Hollywood gossip are sponsored by Procter & Gamble Co. (Drene Shampoo). Last week Cinemactress Constance Bennett de la Falaise de la Coudraye sued Fidler, sponsor, et al. for libel, asking $250,000 damages. Flip Fidlerism: that Connie had snubbed Comedienne Patsy Kelly on a Hal Roach set; that studio workmen, Patsy's pals, bought flowers for her, none for Connie...
Dorothea's life was a matter of going to dull parties, visiting the King at Brighton, picking up scraps of gossip, nattering the King's fat mistress, patching up quarrels between, Austrian supporters, suffering boredom, nervousness, tantrums and fears of revolution, then making fun of everybody and everything to Metternich. Because she did so with a mixture of malice, snobbishness, impatience, heartlessness and occasional humdrum housewifely humor, her private letters make a lively book, packed with characterizations that, a novelist could envy. Thus she describes the conversation of her diplomatic rival, the clumsy, ill-favored wife...
Love and Hisses (Twentieth Century-Fox). What makes this latest Walter Winchell-Ben Bernie hurly-burly bearable is that whenever the Broadway gossip and the band leader rest from their mutual belaboring, pretty, pouting Simone Simon surprises everybody by singing pleasingly in a muted, engagingly unprofessional soprano. As a Bernie find whom Winchell, sight unseen, has slurred in a radio broadcast, she changes her name to Yvette Yvette, warms up on the less fluty flights of Lakme's Bell Song, proceeds through Gordon & Revel's Sweet Someone and a repertory that finally forces Winchell to eat his unsavory...
...Gossip...
...strong word, but Gossip Winchell is wrong...