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...when his father taught him classic circus numbers, are probably his trumpet arrangements of music-master favorites (Flight of the Bumble Bee, Carnival of Venice, et al.) His biggest Success Secret is the astute James theory that wartime fans, tired of pure heat, now want their heartstrings twanged. Other heartthrob Success Secrets in James's band: Helen Forrest, throb-voiced torcheuse, who copes as smoothly with wacky songs as with moon-June lyrics; Johnny McAfee, vocalist, and Corky Corcoran, sax wizard...
This week U.S. radio script-writing took a short shuffle away from the tradition of heartthrob and supermanliness and toward the amiable vulgarity of Ring Lardner. The show is WOR-Mutual's Fight Camp, a good-natured yarn about a sturdy widow named Ma Corbett (Blanche Ring) who conditions pugs with one hand while keeping them away from her pretty daughter with the other...
Surprised in London last week was Spencer Williams, longtime Secretary of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce. He was surprised because no Moscow correspondent has dared smuggle out the story of handle-bar-mustached Mr. Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili's latest heartthrob...
...cream pie, summoned oldtime Pie-slinger Buster Keaton to hurl 56 of them; called in Mack Sennett, Chester Conklin, Jed Prouty, many another old-timer to impersonate themselves, resurrected Keystone Cops* and Bathing Beauties, the bewitchingly crossed eyes of Bartender Ben Turpin. Many a fan sat twice through the heartthrob antics of 1939 to see the side-splitting antics...
More disillusioned than most of her heartthrob imitators, Dorothy Dix is nevertheless a stern foe of sexual irregularity among her readership. "Often a girl writes me that I have turned her back just as she was starting down the primrose path, and married men and women tell me I have kept them from the sin and folly of the double life," she says. To women who have been jilted by married men, she has a standard reply: "Quit befooling yourself with false hopes. . . . Now, when his romance with you is as stale as his marriage, he hasn...