Word: ladyes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago their quarrel burst like a boil: Elaine quit the show in a spuming huff. A few days later, performing before Omaha's highbusted Drama League, John was royally pickled. Up & down traveled his voice, to a bull-like bellow, to a bird-like whisper. Scandalized were Omaha...
The undisputed first lady of radio as of 1939 is 235-lb., 29-year-old Contralto Kate Smith. For eight successful radio years Kate Smith has used her booming, unschooled voice, plus occasional bursts of hearty Americanism to sell millions of dollars worth of cigars, automobiles, coffee and, since 1937...
Last week this publicly expansive first lady was guaranteed her radio job, at a salary of at least $7,000 a week, for three more years, in a non-cancellable contract the like of which has been written in radio only once before (for Jack Benny two years ago). Most...
Died. Alfred Winny, 99, voted England's perfect servant, for 72 years in the service of the Churchill-Marlborough family and at his death butler to Lady Edward Spencer-Churchill; of old age; in Windsor, England. Winny despised the cinema, often observed that he was thankful his mistress did...
> "Imagine Joe's surprise when he finds that he has to buy, not one but six different catalogues for an aggregate cost of $4.75. Oh, well, it will make the old lady happy, so what the . . .?" > "Mrs. B. reads the catalogue to find out all about the picture. What...