Word: jessel
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...Fred Allen and the Bristol-Myers Town Hall Tonight company, NBC. Substitutes starting this week: George Jessel, For Men Only; What's My Name?, a guessing-game program that made its fame last year over MBS for Philip Morris...
...that in 1935-36 cinema had received a contribution outstanding "for having revolutionized one of the most important branches of the industry- Newsreel. Its creativeness is looked upon by the Academy as a 'shot in the arm' for the whole newsreel field." At the banquet, Toastmaster George Jessel handed a Special Award Oscar to Vice President Roy Edward Larsen of TIME Inc. for THE MARCH OF TIME...
Democrats: Virginia C. Gildersleeve, Mary Woolley, Will Durant, Robert Taylor, George Raft, George Jessel, George Gershwin, George M. Cohan, Lee Shubert, Eddy Duchin, W. C. Fields, Beatrice Lillie, Joe E. Brown...
...which Jimmy Savo, son of a Bronx cobbler, worked his way into the world's most impressive theatrical organization was long and disjointed. Twenty years ago he was a burlesque bum. Before that he had been an amateur in direct competition with Joe Cook, Eddie Cantor, George Jessel, Fanny Brice on Manhattan's lower East Side. In fact, these striplings once refused to appear in an amateur show with Savo because he was so small and forlorn that the audience always applauded him the prize out of pure pity...
Married. Norma Talmadge, 36, cinemactress, recently divorced wife of Cinema Producer Joseph M. Schenck (TIME, April 23); and George Jessel, comedian; in Atlantic City...