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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another claimant to authorship of The Prisoner's Song was Conductor Nathaniel ("Nat") Shilkret. Last week this sawed-off little maestro astounded the industry by going after The Prisoner's Song in dead earnest. He filed a copy of the music at the Copyright Office in Washington, had his lawyer, Maurice Speiser, call on the publishers, Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., for an accounting of the baleful ballad's huge sales and earnings...
Forty years ago, when Editor Nathaniel ("Nat") Burbank hired Mrs. Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer to write a weekly women's article for the New Orleans Picayune, he gave her a definite idea of what he wanted. "We'll call this feature 'Sunday Salad,' " he told the brown-eyed young gentlewoman from Tennessee. "Make its base of fresh, crisp ideas. Over them pour a dressing mixed of oil of kindness, the vinegar of satire, the salt of wit, and a dash of the paprika of doing things." They also decided they would henceforth call Mrs. Gilmer, "Dorothy...
...Captain Len Leboeuf and with Nat Batchelder, Jim Cahn, and Joe Doyle in starring roles, Coach Rene Percy's team won the epee easily 6-3, but dropped the foils decision by the same score. The match was decided when Batchelder won two bouts in the sabre to give the Crimson a 5-4 edge...
...Wilderness! is notable also for one of those curiosities of billing that cinema contracts sometimes bring about. Wallace Beery, billed as the star, plays what amounts to an expanded bit-part. He is Uncle Sid, affable and alcoholic parasite who sponges a living in the family of Nat Miller, smalltown newspaper publisher. Nat Miller is played by Lionel Barrymore whose part, though written down considerably from the play, is still an important one and who gets second billing. The real lead (Richard) is Eric Linden, who gets no special billing at all, worked in the picture as a free lance...
...Stork Club (3 E. 53rd St.). Nat Brandwyne's Band and Nano Rodrige's rumba orchestra alternate for dancing. Miss Marjorie Logan, Greenwich society girl, who sang last season at the St. Regis and over a nation-wide hookup, sings at this fashionable rendez-yous...