Word: hortons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fluttery Comedian Edward Everett Horton made a walloping twelve-week success of Springtime for Henry in Los Angeles. In June 1939, with no cinema commitments to tie him down, he decided to revive Benn Levy's frothy farce. Since then he has played Henry all over the country, has scooted profitably in & out of more than 75 theatres. Still going strong in Gloucester, Mass, last week, Horton's revival was pushing on past 300 performances...
...Horton's performance in Springtime for Henry is not solely a labor of love. His contract calls for a minimum of $500 a week. He gets a third of the gross when it amounts to more than $1,500. Only permanent member of Horton's company besides himself is Marjorie Lord, who was discovered by Horton in Saratoga, N. Y. The other two characters required for the play are hired in advance by Horton's stage manager, given a dress rehearsal when Horton and Lord arrive in town...
ROBERT W. HORTON...
West's Norton. Wyoming's Congressman from Saddlestring, Frank Ogilvie Horton is a Hoover man from way back...
...renowned for its editorial vigor. In the normal course of events, a few stanch followers of the Traveler's, editorial page would have nod ded their heads over Joe Toye's diatribe, and that would have been that. But City Editor Horton Edmands, one day last week, found in his mail a letter of protest from the German Consulate in Boston...