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Scripteuse for Let's Pretend is blonde, broad-beamed Nila Mack, who used to be an actress, now lives with a Persian cat in Manhattan. Last week Storyteller Mack celebrated her tenth anniversary in radio by directing The Five Hundred Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins for the Columbia Workshop. It was the 1,304th show that she had had a hand in. First, in 1930, was Sinbad the Sailor, with a cast of grownups and children. Dissatisfied with the adults in Sinbad, Miss Mack decided to round up a group of untrained small fry, to teach by her own methods...
...Glenn Miller fifth, Swingster Benny Goodman seventh); Arturo Toscanini for symphonies; Bing Crosby for popular songs; Nelson Eddy for classics; Songstress Frances Langford, Sportscaster Bill Stern, Newscaster Lowell Thomas, Studio Announcer Don Wilson. Favorite dramatic program: Cecil B. DeMille's Lux Radio Theatre; favorite children's program: Nila Mack's Let's Pretend; favorite quarter-hour: Fred Waring's. Outstanding 1939 star: blind British Piano Wag Alec Templeton...
...editor, manager and ghostwriter of Famous Features Syndicate, 39-year-old Leslie Fulenwider had dished up and sold the "own" stories of such headliners as Mrs. Frances Heenan ("Peaches") Browning, Queen Marie of Rumania, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Nila Cram Cook (from Iowa to Gandhi and back), the late Mrs. Elsa Einstein ("Joys & Sorrows of Being a Famous Man's Wife"). Last week Leslie Fulenwider decided it was time he did something on his own. He arranged to take a parachute jump, his first, and describe his sensations in a syndicated article he would ghostwrite for himself...
Married. Mariette Nguyen Huu Hao, 18, Chinese Catholic; and Bao Dai, 21, Buddhist Emperor of Annam; in Hûe, Annam Married. Nila Cram Cook, 25, eccentric onetime disciple of Mahatma Gandhi; and Albert M. Hutchins, 28, steward on the freighter which brought her home to the U. S. from India; in Manhattan...
...mentioned was the fact that the fast was partly due to an American woman, Nila Cram Cook, 22, left a widow by a Greek with a four-year-old son, who last year became Gandhi's disciple, was detailed by him to work among the Harijans (Untouchables) in Bangalore, got into unscrupulous hands, contracted debts and a bad reputation, was recalled...