Word: kaye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that time Jimmy Walker was loafing in Cannes with his favorite girl friend, curvaceous Betty Compton, dancer (Oh, Kay!, Fifty Million Frenchmen). They had become friends five years before, when wisecracking, dandified, vote-getting Mayor Walker was giving New York City the kind of musical-comedy administration it could then afford. They danced to Leo Reisman's orchestra at the Central Park Casino, munched hot dogs to the smack of Babe Ruth's home runs at Yankee Stadium, first-nighted the boom-time musicals, which often ran the Mayor's plug in their theatre ads. Those were...
...bricks without straw." The management of His Majesty's Theatre once had to serve breakfast, lunch and tea to a queue of 300 who had lined up 24 hours before a Lawrence first night. In the U. S. she played in another Chariot's Revue, the Gershwin musicomedy Oh, Kay!, Treasure Girl, Candle Light with Leslie Howard, Lew Leslie's International Review, Noel Coward's Private Lives and Tonight at 8:30 with her old friend, recently Susan and God and Skylark...
...radio's big ten were the deftly written serial The Aldrich Family (sixth), the schmalz of Band Leader Kay Kyser (ninth), the soap-opera One Man's Family (tenth). Beating the graven image Charlie McCarthy by a whisker, Jack Benny led the pack for 1940. Others in Crossley's peerage: Fibber McGee & Molly, the Lux Radio Theatre, Bob Hope, Kate Smith, Major Bowes...
...Graves, Rolla Cambell, and Larry Corbett will race the 600-yard event; while Joe Scott and Bob Houghton, who ran the mile last year, are in the 1000-yard run. In the high jump are Bob Partlow, John Bunker, and Mike Zara; Kay Rogers and John Sopka are running the mile...
...report was damning: testimony of Boeing men that Keppler had invited them to join the Communist Party; stories of secret C. P. meetings in the apartment of a mysterious "Miss Kay"; stories of Keppler and Lundquist organizing May Day parades. The court of union rank & filers voted to accept the trial board's verdict that Keppler was a Communist...