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...advance sale for the play was the biggest in Central City's history, topping even such box-office attractions as Helen Hayes. Mae West and Katharine Cornell. Shirley's 12½% of the gross equals the highest salary ever paid a star in the "summer theater capital of the U.S." This fall she goes to Hollywood to make her second movie. Viña Delmar's About Mrs. Leslie, the story of an amiable boardinghouse landlady. Then she will rush back to Broadway for rehearsals of a new musical, By the Beautiful Sea, which is being written...
...went to Congress, moved up to the Senate in 1939. When Senator Tobey blocked the appointment of Oilman Edwin Pauley as Under Secretary of the Navy, Harry Truman wrote him an angry letter, scrawled "Come and see me" across the bottom. "Who does he think he is?" sputtered Tobey. "Mae West...
...host of Government agencies which have since gone their own ways, including: the Federal National Mortgage Association ("Fannie Mae"); Commodity Credit Corp., through which RFC lent $1.5 billion to farmers during the Depression; the Export-Import Bank; the Rural Electrification Administration...
Married. Horace E. Dodge Jr., 52, motor millionaire; and Gregg Sherwood (real name: Dora Mae Fjelstad), 29, platinum blonde ex-showgirl; he for the fifth time, she for the second; at his mother's 75-room seaside mansion in Palm Beach...
Married. Henry Junkins ("Bob") Topping, 39, nightclubbing tin-plate heir; and brunette Mona Mae Moedl, 24, Sun Valley skating instructor; he for the fifth time (No. 4: Cinemactress Lana Turner) she for the second; in Salt Lake City...