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Family Man. Behind him is a picture of his two-year-old son, Joe Paul, named in part for Paul Robeson, the Negro singer, whom Joe greatly admires. Joe Paul's mother is the second Mrs. Curran, Retta Toble, a husky redhead and onetime stewardess on the Grace Line. Joe was divorced from the first Mrs. Curran. The current Mrs. Curran is "the best cook in the world." Joe's favorite is Spanish rice. When he is at the office he eats at the Port Cafeteria around the corner, dining on corned beef & cabbage and strawberry ice cream...
Although the acting of Milton I. Byer '35, who played the part of Jose Segura, a bold, bad, South American, was outstanding, it failed to excel the performance of Retta, played by Nixon de Tarnowsky '35, who truly met the requirements of any man's ideal girl. Joseph D. Fisher '35 portrayed a vivacious young lady named Mamie with the proper amount of gusto, and Kenneth Di Menna '34 succeeded in amusing the audience as the Amewican Awistocrat, Lieuteuant Cadwallader, who had slight difficulty in speaking...
...chosen. Chaste maidens, bad villains, and languishing beauties will be on the stage in this drama which tells of army life in New Mexico in the early eighties. Nixon deTarnowsky '35, a veteran of a similar play given last year, will take the part of a love-lorn maiden, Retta; the villain will be acted by Milton I. Byer '35, who is known as a very wicked man from former roles which he has filled; the leading lady, Sophia, will be portrayed by Lewis J. Affelder...
Married. Fannie' Brice (real name: Borach), 37, famed Jewish comédienne (Ziegfeld Follies, Music Box Revue, Fio-retta), onetime wife of famed bond-thief "Nicky" Arnstein; and Billy Rose (real name: Rosenberg), 29, Manhattan song writer (Barney Google, Me and My Shadow); in New York City Hall, by Mayor James John Walker. Songwriter Rose offered the Mayor $1, promised him another if the marriage was successful...