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TIME, Oct. 10, reviewing Vanities, states that the patronym of Milton Berle is pronounced to rhyme with "peril." As manager of a vaudeville theatre in which Berle appeared not long ago, I discovered that while Milton pronounces his last name to rhyme with "pearl," Mr. Berle Sr. pronounces it "Boyle...
...voiced Helen Broderick. who variously impersonates a streetwalker, an inmate of a maternity ward, a deceiving wife. Harriet Hoctor. wanly unreal as a porcelain figure, does her old raven dance and a couple of others. Offsetting this wholesome influence is an abandoned fellow named Milton Berle (to rhyme with "peril") whom Producer Carroll has chosen for his chief male funster...
Seventeen years ago when Cincinnati's Zoological Gardens were in peril of closing, two wealthy women came forward and saved them. Cincinnati Traction Co., owner of the property, threatened to break it up, sell it as building lots. Mrs. Charles Phelps Taft, wife of the publishing half-brother of William Howard Taft, gave $125,000 to prevent the split-up. Another $125,000 was given by Mrs. Mary Emery whose father-in-law, Thomas Emery, made one of the first big real estate fortunes in Cincinnati, increased it by manufacturing lard oil and candles...
...Liberalization of the church's attitude on divorce, sanctioning as grounds for divorce not only adultery but any other "vicious conditions" of "mental or physical peril...
...question of the Government's deciding comes into this matter?England is in deadly peril, I repeat! The British Lion right now is like a toothless...