Word: gower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...funny modeling a moulting fur coat as she is imitating what Broadway columnists sometimes call a "chantootsie." Bouncy Mary McCarty can tear apart a popular song with fine abandon or imitate a female wine-taster getting drunk on the job. As an extra dividend, man & wife dance team Marge & Gower Champion foot their way featly through the hour...
Married. Ernest Aldrich Simpson, 51, second husband of the thrice-married Duchess of Windsor; and Avril Joy Mullens Leveson Gower, 39, British socialite; he for the fourth time, she for the third; in London...
Seldom has Hollywood been so frightened about its future. In a panicky wave of economy, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had cut its payroll 40%-wiping out one entire echelon of executives. Columbia Pictures had fired 25% of its employees, and RKO's Gower Street studio had been dark for ten days. This week the entire industry was shooting only 25 pictures. Even though the first of the year is always a low point, this was not quite half as many pictures as were under way at the same time last year...
...Cantor also plays a Hollywood guide whose lifelong tragedy, cheating him of a screen career, is his resemblance to Eddie Cantor. This damaged soul lives among others of Hollywood's lumpenproletariat in Gower Gulch, a sort of surrealist Hooverville. Eventually the true Cantor is kidnapped by Gower Gulch Indians who adopt him into the tribe for the benefit of a LIFE photographer (flatteringly misrepresented by Joan Leslie). At the climax of the Monster Benefit the false Cantor impersonates the man he hates most in the world, the true Cantor. Meanwhile the true Cantor suffers as he has suffered...
...boys at Brewer's would rather talk about the 1939 election in which Jack Evans, a salt-&-peppery veteran of 25 years in Westerns, beat out Rube Dalroy, a full-bearded, booted ex-circus clown and rider with Buffalo Bill, for the whimsical honor of being Mayor of Gower Gulch. The campaign was promoted by Brewer's so that the clientele would buy more drinks. To vote, you had to write your candidate's name on a cash-register receipt. Business zoomed. But the election almost went into a tailspin when a late starter appeared. The dark...