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...Many an older listener mourned too. The New York Times sounded the following editorial requiem: The Lone Ranger, under that name, came into being in this generation for a radio public, but under various names he has been alive for many centuries. He was Ulysses, William Tell and Robin Hood; he was Richard the Lionhearted, the Black Prince and Du Guesclin; he was Kit Carson, Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett; he was honest, truthful and brave-and so he remains...
With a new wardrobe of bow-tres and business suits, Errol Flynn takes advantages of "Footsteps in the Dark" to jump several centuries from the days of Robin Hood to modern times. Surprisingly enough for his numerous back-biters, the change seems to have done Hollywood's cavalier some good. His part is that of an idle upper-cruster with an insatiable yen for detective work, so much so that he leads a double life, writing mysteries on the side. His research work leads him to an amusing set of experiences with an archaic strip-teaser and the murders which...
...Corps's Major General George Brett, who announced that Army planes would swoop in mass formation over struck plants, to show strikers "what they are working for." Congressman Dies, who has cried "Wolf!" so long & loud that he has almost turned public sympathy against Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother, croaked incessantly of Communists, demanded the purging from labor of all Reds. In Washington, an Army officer wagered even money that the first target of U. S. armed forces would not be enemy troops but U. S. citizens...
Except for an occasional nightclub outing with Dixie, he spends his evenings at home with the family telling the boys bedtime stories in Crosbyesque slang. One night Little Red Riding Hood finally gets "hep" that the wolf isn't grandma; the next night Goldilocks makes a "three-bowl parlay" on the bears' porridge. Every few months he asks over his old musician friends-Manny Klein, Lennie Hayton, Joe Venuti, and whoever happens to be in town-for a jam session in his large rumpus room. Summers he packs the family off to the ranch near...
...Last summer, while she was playing at the Cape Playhouse at Dennis, Mass., she married tall, dignified Theatrical Producer Richard Stoddard Aldrich, 38, son of a late Hood Rubber executive' who headed the Harvard Dramatic Club in 1924. A short time after the wedding Gertie got a congratulatory cable from England...