Word: plugger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bright, glossy Technicolored musicals which Darryl Zanuck dishes out several times each year. Like all the others, The Dolly Sisters, which launches George Jessel as a Hollywood producer, has a plot concocted of time-tested staples: the kindly, absent-minded accent (S. K. Sakall); the handsome, threadbare song-plugger (John Payne); the rich, respectable fop (Reginald Gardiner); the old-time hit tune (I'm Always Chasing Rainbows); the lavish dance sequence (performed in blackface on a 75-foot banjo to the tune of Darktown Strutters' Ball). The only really fresh face belongs to Frank Latimore, who plays Chicago...
Formula for Success. The current spectacular revival of Confessin' is a personal triumph for the nation's top-ranking woman plugger: Chicago's slim, blonde, big-eyed Harriette Smith. One of six pluggers assigned to Confessin' (one in Holly wood, four in Manhattan), 24-year-old Harriette has worked the Midwest mainly...
Died. Smith Wildman Brookhart, 75, chunky, teetotaling, tobacco-shunning, onetime Republican Senator from Iowa, Farm Bloc regular, Soldier Bonus plugger, expert rifleman and early advocate of recognizing Russia; in Prescott, Arizona...
Paul Whiteman signed up the cherubic, long-lashed song-plugger when he was 18 ("I looked like an unfrocked altar boy"). In between his songs with the band, Downey sat with the brass section and pretended to blow a horn, although he could not play a note. His salary boiled up to $350 a week...
...composer and the plugger of the nation's biggest song hit met last fortnight for the first time. The song: As Time Goes By ("A kiss is still a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh, the fundamental things apply as time goes by").* The composer: massive, white-haired Herman ("Dodo") Hupfeld, who wrote it in 1931. The plugger: a short, stocky Negro named (Arthur) Dooley Wilson, who started this forgotten ditty toward its sensational present success by the loving way he sang it in the Warner Bros, movie Casablanca (TIME, Nov. 30). Dodo and Dooley met at Manhattan...