Word: macke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fannie Brice invested it, her cool contralto and cozy curves are still cinemusically perfect. Some of the numbers old & new she ably croons and sighs: I'm Just Wild About Harry, I'm Sorry I Made You Cry, I Never Knew Heaven Could Speak (the last by Mack Gordon & Harry Revel...
...Negro leader distrusts The Man Bilbo, who was once accused of muzzling Negro pickers in his pecan grove. He tickles the poor-white vote with his back-to-Africa talk, but he appeals to many a poor black as well. Last week he flourished a letter from Harlem: ". . . I, Mack Royal . . . seartnley will go at the word-I and my whole famley. . . . Sir, please inrole my name; please do this with fail...
...none sported Italian names, only one had studied in Europe. The two men were big, straight fellows-baritones. The four women-sopranos-were young, slim, uncommonly pretty, utterly un-divalike. The winners: Lyric Soprano Annamary Dickey, 25, of Decatur, Ill.; and blond, moonfaced, 29-year-old Mack Harrell, from Greenville...
...first in 1932, while making a picture called No Man of Her Own. Gable was then a novice leading man, only four years removed from the career of bumming, lumberjacking and cheap stock company acting that had preceded his debut on Broadway in Machinal. Carole Lombard was an ex-Mack Sennett comedienne trying hard to make a reputation as a serious actress. Both were married. Gable's wife was a well-to-do Texas widow ten years his senior, whom he had married the year before, after divorcing a dramatic coach. Lombard's husband was Actor William Powell...
That lug was Edgar Bergen, who 20 years ago, at 16, sketched Charlie's features after those of a ragamuffin Chicago newsboy, paid $35 to have them whittled in wood by a woodcarving barkeep named Mack, and since then has made a tidy fortune speaking his nimble mind through Charlie's lips. Bergen himself is professionally shy, so that the fresh guy, Charlie, seems a distinct personality...