Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answered all the questions, something he has certainly not required to do, and in perfect English. At first the American officer believed his replies, but when Nip willingly gave him the exact time and place for the appearance of the next barge fleet, he became skeptical...
Starting the evening off right from the train station by greeting us with our names, these young misses really knew the trick to make the evening perfect. Bill Long, Tom Robinson, Dick Rowles, Bill Naddy and Rudy Moeller were among the first to disembark. Bill McCracken had a date with the class president which we hear was really more than he expected. Big time operator Tom Yedor proceeded to answer to several names and as a result ended up with Joe Washington's date among others as well as his own. This was the big opportunity for getting dates...
After seven years' absence, The Perfect Fool was back on the air last week. This time Ed Wynn's giggle and lisp, his affectionate idiocy were selling milk (Borden) instead of gasoline (Texaco), as King Bubbles of Happy Island (Blue Network, Fri., 7 p.m., E.W.T.), where refugees from Worry Park ("Step Mournfully, Please") play make-believe. Though his new program is heavy-laden with Elsie the Cow, singers of both sexes and commercials which are part of the plot, Ed Wynn manages, as he has for 42 years of show business, to make the show entirely...
Happy Island is Wynn's idea. The Borden Co. pays the comedian $5,000 a week for it. It is produced in full costume, with scenery, because The Perfect Fool, who is anything but a fool, thinks he had better get ready for television. There is no announcer. Wynn, who claims to be the first man in radio to kid the commercials, takes very good care of that role himself...
...headliner at Hammerstein's. On the side he composed popular tunes. After eleven successful years in vaudeville, Wynn appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1914. The Passing Show of 1916 made him a star. Writing the book, lyrics and music and starring in the Ed Wynn Carnival, The Perfect Fool, and The Grab Bag (1919-1925) made him a millionaire. Thereafter he played in seven more musical shows, all hits, made three so-so movies, and in 1932 became Texaco's "Fire Chief...