Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scotsman who was earning $25 a week as a financial reporter made an unusual investment. From his savings, he spent $10 a day to live at Manhattan's old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. There he could rub elbows with the rich who gathered nightly in "Peacock Alley" to swap gossip. Before long, Bertie Charles Forbes was on speaking terms with many a tycoon. He became the rich man's Poor Richard and Boswell. As a Hearst columnist and later as publisher of his own Forbes-Magazine of Business, "B.C." found a hundred ways of repeating the obvious ("Dawn will...
...Hollywood, Edith Gwynn's "Rambling Reporter" is called an orange-juice column. Its citrus-tart gossip, cinema news and gags are usually gulped at the breakfast table along with the columns of Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons...
Dammed-Up Gags. Edie worked on Judge magazine before she married Billy and, in 1930, helped him found the paper. She wrote movie reviews and a gossip column, kept up the column after the divorce ("I don't remember whether we got unhitched in 1935 or 1936 and whether it was in Yucatan or Honduras"). But Publisher Wilkerson, who once ran a speakeasy and later the Trocadero nightclub and is now part owner of L'Aiglon and LaRue, is a man of unshakable principle: never knock an advertiser unless he forgets to advertise. When Billy retracted an accurate...
...idle words of gossip connect the two events; a little more gossip surmises the parentage of the baby. Suspicion is documented when the middle-aged woman begins to receive a regular "insurance" check, and a young man (Ronald Reagan) who was in love with the sick girl leaves town...
...interesting play, but not quite a success. It is too full of clashing moods and shifting pressures. Between the university and the professor is more difference than at first appears-all the difference between the stuff of satire and the stuff of drama. With fluttering spinsters and tea-table gossip constantly cutting in on the professor's story, The Druid Circle seems too intense at moments, yet not intense enough as a whole. Playwright van Druten, who as a young man taught for a time at the sort of college he portrays, has perhaps put his imagination in bondage...