Word: norman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marriage Announced. Jon Hall (real name: Charles Locher, pronounced Lo-shay), 25, muscular, part-Tahitian cinemactor (Hurricane), second cousin of Hurricane's co-author James Norman Hall; to Frances Langford, 25, cinema singer (Palm Springs, Bom to Dance, Hollywood Hotel) who was a soprano until a tonsillectomy made her a contralto; in Prescott, Ariz.; secretly, fortnight...
American listeners last week were promised a weekly half-hour of assorted parlor games in the Town Hall Big Game Hunt, summer substitute for Fred Allen's Town Hall Tonight. Old Vaudevillian Norman Frescott, who takes over from Allen July 6, claims that his program will be the most diverse and complicated ever. "The audience asks the announcer a question," facetiously says he, "the announcer puts a question to a guest star, who puts one to the band leader, who puts one to the soprano. And after the program, the sponsor puts...
Last week-as Boss Hague was haled into Federal District Court in nearb'y Newark by C. I. O. and the Civil Liberties Union to defend himself against a charge of abridging the constitutional right of free speech-Norman Thomas, whose Socialist Party claims partial credit for ex posing Jersey City as a place where civil liberties are dead, appeared in Newark's Military Park to berate Mayor Hague publicly. His reward: howls, band music, ripe tomatoes, rotten eggs, an announcement by the park commissioner that hereafter Newark, like Jersey City, will permit no more anti-Hague meetings...
...Paramount). Underworld melodrama, based on a story by Norman Krasna, directed by Fritz Lang, scored by Kurt Weill, acted by Sylvia Sidney and George Raft which, setting out to prove that Crime Does Not Pay, proves instead that the brightest names in Hollywood sometimes make its dullest pictures...
Suppression of civil liberties as found in Jersey City gave the state of New Jersey an evil enough reputation without the recent outburst of repressive tactics in Newark. When Norman Thomas, Socialist leader, underwent a barrage of rotten eggs and ripe fruit Saturday night as he was about to speak against the policies of Mayor Hague, it was apparent that Hague's tactics had spread to the constituency of neighbor Mayor Ellenstein. "I watched this disturbance for ten minutes and at any time the police could have broken it up," said Mr. Thomas, and his charge is a serious...