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Such would have been newspaper headlines last week if the Army's air war game over Ohio had been real instead of mimic...
...theme" song: Hammacher-Schlemmer* (I Love You). The Grand Street Follies have always depended largely on protean Albert Carroll, impish imitator of the grimaces and posturings of famed actresses. In this latest edition−a mockery fest which simultaneously jibes at world history, actors, producers, Broadway hits−Mimic Carroll simulates the jiggling gait of Beatrice Lillie (This Year of Grace), the lush, salivary speech of Constance Collier (the countess in Serena Blandish), the Jewish idiom of Fannie Brice (Fioretta), the long-legged, weaving rhythms of Gertrude Lawrence (Treasure Girl). He is far less successful in his one attempt...
...Burbank, Calif., rain seeped through the roof of the arsenal on the First National lot, saturated smoke bombs causing a chemical reaction that set off the dynamite, shells, grenades, stored there for mimic warfare. A beaver board French village outside, three workmen, and $40,000 worth of equipment blew up fanwise without hurting Corinne Griffith and 40 actors and actresses at work nearby...
Away from the public she is like that-unaffected, gay. She lives at the St. Regis Hotel with her husband, two maids. For recreation she loves the movies, goes sometimes to three shows in succession, sits enthralled, comes home to mimic all the players. She likes to stand at shop windows, nose pressed against the pane, to look at glittering things. But for jewels, save pearls and emeralds, she cares little, dresses simply always and in perfect taste. She likes potatoes, dumplings, sausages and cabbage, can cook them all herself and turn a handspring when she has finished eating...
Texas Guinan's Mimic Helen Morgan's Merry-Go-Round Blue Hour Charm Furnace Ferndale Don Royale Silver Slipper Jungle Luigi's Beaux Arts Frivolity European Greenwich Social La Frera Knight The raiders were 100 Federal agents, picked from distant districts, whom Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran ordered to Manhattan in February to "get the lay." In couples and squads and single, well-dressed and well-heeled, they had ingratiated themselves with night club proprietors. Helen Morgan, actress-hostess, was angered to discover that the "Mr. & Mrs. Lon Tyson" whom she had played with for weeks...