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...Barbary Coast. Wrote one observer: "I've often seen it on the old line with the girls late in the evening walking up the street, their stockings so weighted down with silver dollars that it was all they could do to navigate." Added another: "There were some sprightly-lookin' lasses down there. . . . But there was plenty of tough-lookin' blisters too. A man could have got hydrophobia from even lookin' at them...
...powerful advance. 'We tried to knock 'em off Old Baldy,' said Sergeant Vernon Mugerditchian of Waukegan, Ill., jerking his head at a rounded bare steep cliff. 'We tried first with one battalion and then another, but we just couldn't. They were lookin' down our throats...
Antics. The town's best act is Jimmy "Schnozzle" Durante, who, at the brightly Brazilian Copacabana with its gorgeous showgirls, is making his first real nose-to-nose appearance in twelve years. Schnozzle ("I know I'm not good-lookin', but wot's my opinion against tousands of odders?") has aged but fortunately not mellowed, is again in the vein of the late, great Clayton, Jackson & Durante act, able to concentrate on his own mad, multileveled comedy which Hollywood usually heavily diluted with other men's ideas. He brings on his old partner, Eddie Jackson...
...late James Weldon Johnson, writer, lyricist, educator, first Negro to become a U.S. consul, secretary for 14 years of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Composer is his equally famed brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, popular song writer (Under the Bamboo Tree, Nobody's Lookin' but the Owl and the Moon), collector and arranger of spirituals, onetime musical director for Oscar Hammerstein, now (at 69) a minor actor in the revival of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. The Johnson brothers thought little of their song after finishing it, but Jacksonville children continued to carol...
Leopold Stokowski, who had hopefully dashed East from Hollywood, went crestfallen back to the West Coast; Rodzinski had not even had a lookin. Hurriedly NBC augmented its Symphony Orchestra to the extra-large size the performance required. Night after night, nearsighted Maestro Toscanini, who conducts from memory, never from notes, sat up with his nose buried in the score...