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Remember - 1938 (Sun. 7:30 p.m., NBC). A nostalgic reminiscence of the year 1938 with Host Groucho Marx, Guests Ethel Barrymore, Oscar Levant, H. V. Kaltenborn, Ted Husing...
Back in Paris within two years, Dumas founded a newspaper called the Musketeer; the first issue announced 50 forthcoming volumes of his memoirs. He toured Russia (seven volumes), bought a little schooner, scooped up a charmer from a Paris theater and sailed for the Levant. But in Genoa he joined Garibaldi, took some of the Thousand aboard, and landed with the liberators in Sicily...
Wisecracking Pianist Oscar Levant, 47. once described by Playwright S. N. Behrman as "a character who, if he did not exist, could not be imagined," had a headline-making spat with his wife June in Beverly Hills. June walked out. Figuring that she had gone home to mother. Oscar tried to phone her there, was told by the local operator that the line was busy and that he would have to wait half an hour. Cried Oscar: "In half an hour I'll be dead!" Said the operator, soothingly: "Hold on. I'll help...
...foot back on Broadway as the partner of a temperamental ballerina. The show they are rehearsing is a sort of boogie Faust, and there is the devil to pay in the form of an overemotional producer (Jack Buchanan). Also on hand for some mild laughs: Pianist Oscar Levant, whom Hollywood seems to regard as inevitable a backstage fixture as the fire bucket...
...Levant, in the Los Angeles and New York locals, apologized and accepted reinstatement glumly. "I am now," he gloomed, "restored to official unemployment...