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...Rooney 3rd, now doing his own song-&-dance, platinum-haired Pat Rooney walked into Federal Court in Manhattan, filed petition for bankruptcy. His assets: $252, and a job entertaining at Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe. Liabilities: to touched friends George M. Cohan, $200; Ben Bernie, $200; Harry Richman, $100; Ollie Olsen, $25; Bob Hope, $25; Victor Moore...
Fighting-chinned Bert Lytell, now 55, made his New York debut in 1914 with Marie Dressier in A Mix-Up. During World War I he toured U. S. cities on a tank, selling Liberty bonds, while Singer Harry Richman, then a sailor, bawled The Rose of No Man's Land. In Manhattan Lytell may often be seen, inside three sweat shirts, circling the Central Park reservoir. Oldtime matinee idolizers often say that Bert Lytell's profile hasn't changed in 20 years. It hasn...
...desire has Berlin to see God Bless America become a national anthem. But he is anxious to keep it out of hotspots. To date he hasn't been very successful in this regard. Blatant Harry Richman has used it at Ben Marden's Riviera on the Hudson, many another has crooned it in similar clubs. He has also been unsuccessful in preventing translators from rendering it in alien tongues. A chapter of the Bund attempted unsuccessfully to adopt it as its official tune, but last month in Rochester, Wis. 40,000 U. S.-loving German-Americans celebrated German...
...such stray topics as theatrical cemeteries, the 36 Dramatic Situations, explains a mass of technical terms and theatre lingo. Experts have written its longer articles: Raymond Massey on Acting, John Mason Brown on Criticism, Lucius Beebe on First Nights, William Fields on Press Agents, Aline Bernstein on Costumes, Arthur Richman on Playwrighting...
...Richman Foundation lends without interest to the solvent employes, makes outright gifts to the financially distressed. From it $10 a week is paid to employes on sick leave. Women employes get ten weeks off at $10 a week to have their babies...