Word: joe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nearly every morning about 9 o'clock Joe may be found [in the press room] eating doughnuts and drinking coffee out of a paper cup. Frequently he is accompanied by a young lady, his secretary, I am told. . . . The young lady departs and Joe produces a safety razor and shaves himself. After that he is ready to peruse his newspaper. Sometimes he goes for a stroll about the building . . . maybe even going so far as to visit his project. ... In the afternoon he may bring in a book and read awhile until he is ready to stretch...
Result of this story was to get Joe Graham fired. Other newspapermen, almost as indignant as Joe, got him a publicity job with a small county fair near Cleveland. Last week Joe Graham paid City Hall a return visit, searched in vain for Reporter Griffin, curled up on his favorite bench and went to sleep again...
...last fortnight for an eastern personal appearance tour, among the crowd that saw him off at the station was a wrinkle-faced, red-mopped little man who looked enough like Mickey Rooney to be his father. Soon the news got around that he was. Asked for his autograph, Comedian Joe Yule, at 44 the veteran of 36 years on the professional stage, smilingly consented. Said he: "It's the first time anybody ever asked...
Mickey Rooney's father gave him his start, aged three, in the Yule family vaudeville act, and the two played together in silent comedies when Mickey was billed as Mickey McGuire. Divorced from Mickey's mother twelve years ago, Joe Yule married Dancer Leato Hullinger, kept his song-&-dance act going as long as vaudeville. Seven years ago he turned up for a two-week engagement as featured comic at the Follies Theatre, a Los Angeles burlesque house which caters to the sailor trade. He has been there ever since. Meanwhile, Mickey's mother had pushed Mickey...
Last week Joe Yule, who has done bits in Idiot's Delight and two other recent pictures, was signed to a three-year contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Mickey's home lot. Salary: $100 a week, $25 more than he was earning at the Follies. Promptly assigned a bit as a stagehand in Fast and Furious with Franchot Tone and Ann Sothern, Joe Yule modestly remarked: "My ambition is to be as much of a success in the movies as I was on the stage...