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...been draped. In fact it is only the indefatigable Jack Benny who keeps the show from being a rather inconsequential hodge-podge. In their efforts to please everyone, the producers have put a great many ingredients in their cinematic soup and include in their cast along with Ida Lupino, Gail Patrick, and Richard Arlen, Andre Kostelanetz, Connie Boswell, the Yacht Club Boys, Martha Raye, Louis Armstrong, McClelland Barclay, Peter Arno, and two "rhythm swimmers" who pretty nearly steal the show with their performance in a sequence of "Whispers in the Dark...
...high command, led by a Hippodrome baritonfe named Giuseppe Interrante, held a mas|; meeting in Steinway Hall. Star speaker was not a worker but an employer-Al-fredo Salmaggi, explosive, long-haired manager of the Hippodrome troupe, who once weathered a G.O.A.A.A. strike-between the acts of A'ida when the company suspected it was not going to be paid promptly-and has since become one of its firmest supporters. Dramatically, he presented the controversy to the meeting as a personal matter, told his listeners that Baritone Bonelli had lately said: "No one who doesn't make...
...Hollywood, Mrs. Ida Hoag ran a doll hospital, manufactured and repaired dolls, had a collection containing dolls more than 50 years old. While she was curling a doll's wig, it caught fire. Hastily she threw it aside. It landed in a pile of wigs waiting to be curled. They flared up. Mrs. Hoag started rescuing her dolls, screaming, "save my babies!" Hurried to a hospital where she was treated for severe burns. Mrs. Hoag returned to the wreckage of her building, grieved over the charred arms, legs, heads, torsos of dolls. Wailed she: "Oh, my poor, poor babies...
...boring newsreel short to a full-length revue that both men and women can sit through without squirming. Incidentally it not only glorifies the U. S. girl (its showgirls include such well-known models as Jaeckel's Betty Wyman, Lucky Strike's and Chesterfield's Ida Vollmar) and U. S. fashions but implies that a couturier may indeed be a forceful masculine fellow. The cinemadequate plot and up-to-date dialog are the expert work of Samuel and Bella Spewack (Boy Meets Girl...
Close harmony was not lacking. Abetted by the Shoreham Hotel's blonde Accordionist Ida Clarke, Senator Byrnes, who opposed Barkley's election, intoned When I Grow Too Old To Dream, and in a sentimental mood Alben Barkley himself, without rising from his seat, gave his favorite rendition of his favorite melody, Wagon Wheels. If there were any discords that evening no Democratic ear would hear them...