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Died. Edward James McNamara, 60, jovial actors' actor; of a heart attack; in Boston. A Paterson (N.J.) policeman and baritone, Mac toured the" U.S. with Schumann-Heink, was one of Caruso's few pupils. In Broadway's Strictly Dishonorable, he was typed for all time as Patrolman Mulligan, ad-libbed two of the play's best lines. When Muriel Kirkland observed that she thought policemen never drank, Mac remarked, "It only seems like never," later made his exit promising to use his nightstick "only in case...
...young ladies' behinds, here develops his tenderest relationships with middle-aged ladies (the Misses George, Main and Hattie McDaniel), and each of them is worth a dozen average love scenes. Edward McNamara (an easygoing friend of the Cagneys whose fine, fresh tenor Caruso once coached and whom Madame Schumann-Heink once "discovered" as a caroling Jersey cop) is something new and convincing in villainy. He looks like neither a swindling person or the unconfessed byblow of a neanderthal rake, but like the sort of hard-soft, period Irishman he is supposed to be. Julia Heron's interiors look...
...Back in 1917, soldiers got out their mouth harps, danced with one another; Schumann-Heink was touring the Army camps...
Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink; Tenor Giovanni Martinelli; Pianist Sergei Rachmarinoff...
Married. Corporal Lawrence Tibbett Jr., 22, twin son of the operatic baritone; and Edith Ernestine Witte, 21, daughter of the late Schumann-Heink's late manager, Roland Witte; in Pasadena, where Tibbett Jr. is in the Army Signal Corps...