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...radio's Town Crier he got a big audience for his twelve-cylinder whimsies and became a cultural campaigner of such influence as had not been known since the palmy days of William Lyon Phelps. His fee rose to $3,500 a broadcast. His reign covered about eight years (1929-37). He was a national phenomenon...
...this was true, it helped to explain why De Lattre de Tassigny, apparently guilty of mutiny, was charged with "abandoning his post." Last week at a secret trial in Lyon he was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment (or for the "duration"). Imprisoned, he could still consider himself in gallant company. Youthful Prince Louis Napoleon, Bonapartist pretender, was arrested last week while trying to run the border into Spain...
...Lyon, Daniels and Oliver-Vienna-born, American-naturalized husband of Winston Churchill's daughter Sarah-were the first to create a regular radio show for services, the first to carry a stage-&-radio show to the camps and navy bases of Britain, the innovators of the now standard practice of inviting servicemen to step up from the audience and broadcast "Hello, Mums!" In the opinion of many an American in Britain, they were also the first to liven...
Bebe Daniels, De Mille-made star of nearly 50 pictures, is now ill in her Bayswater house, where she and Lyon put up song writers, gag writers, secretaries, itinerant fellow-players, men on leave. Soon she and Oliver may commence a new weekly radio show which will enlist other American showfolk justly beloved of Britons : Frances Day, top-money musicomedy star who graduated from the Texas Guinan night club chorus; Ziegfeld Follies alumna Dorothy Dickson, Actress Claire (Gay Divorce) Luce, Greta Nissen, gargantuan Xylophonist Teddy Brown, and freckle-spattered dramatic Comedienne Constance Cummings...
British newspapers report from time to time that some Britons in the U.S. theater and on the U.S. radio are doing more for their pockets than for the war. Britons in Britain prefer the way of Ben Lyon and Bebe Daniels...