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Then how about Richard Stone: he's Gladys' maniacal boy friend, Hines the time-study man. Rolling his eyes with the fury of the late Al Jolson, pointing his finger with the assurance of Phil Silvers, he stalks his way through a number like "Think of the Time I Save." His real triumph, though, (it's perhaps the high spot of the whole show) is the fanatic "I'll Never Be Jealous Again," where, steeled to devotion by a secretary, Mabel (Barbara Charakian), he sweeps the woman into one of the deftest, suavest soft-shoe bits since Eddie Foy created...
...show business, palship never reigns but it pours. To a very few show folk-Al Jolson, Fanny Brice, Irving Thalberg, Variety Founder Sime Silverman-has gone an uninterrupted outpouring of vocal, tearful affection. This week a new name was added to the roll of comradely love when a clutch of top entertainers, including Bob Hope, Sid Caesar, Rosemary Clooney, Perry Como, Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra, Jack Webb and Betty Grable, performed at union minimum rates ($265 each) in a 90-minute NBC telecast in honor of the late Manie Sacks. The show's title: Some of Manie...
...Brothers studios, eldest of four brothers who started a theater in New Castle, Pa. with $150 worth of projection equipment, built a company with 1957 assets of more than $78 million; of a cerebral occlusion; in Los Angeles. Under Polish-born Harry Warner, the brothers pioneered talking pictures (Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer in 1927), acquired a stable of stars that included John Barrymore, Gary Cooper, Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Paul Muni, Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney, Rin-Tin-Tin. Two years ago, when Warner Brothers sold a third of its outstanding common stock to an Eastern syndicate, Harry...
...Ughh!" The violins swelled and the choral voices droned: "He started the first gossip column in town; Don Ameche invented the telephone for Walter so he could send out the news; he reported the way Jolson made people laugh and cry; and he helped J. Edgar Hoover with the FBI." From ringside, Rival Columnist Leonard Lyons whispered hoarsely: "And on the seventh day, he rested...
Danny looks like a weird blend of Napoleon and Fiorello H. LaGuardia, sings as cornily as Al Jolson did, speaks as if he forgot to gargle before keynoting a dockers' meeting. His trademark is his preposterous nose ("If you're going to have a nose, you ought to have a real one"). But the U.S.'s currently favorite tele-comedian, boasting no single towering talent, succeeds as a funnyman mostly because his humor seems to well up from a sizable heart. Or, as Danny Thomas puts it, citing his favorite philosopher, Lebanese Mystic Kahlil (The Prophet) Gibran...