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...took MGM four days to finish Harvard's four minutes' worth of film, but assistant director Sid Sydman said last night that studio officials had already viewed most of the Yard scenes and were "quite apply" over what they...
...only were passing students delighted with the proceedings, but so were Life and newspaper photographers, the University Hall secretarial staff, and a trained dog who tried to earn himself a screen test before Assistant Director Sid Sidman. To keep the people happy while waiting for the sun, Thayer Hall freshmen offered an impromptu program of amplified Al Jolson songs and Dwight Fiske records...
...into show business at the age of 13 on Toledo's station WSPD ("It was pretty much the same show I do now"). After graduating from New York University, she scored a modest success touring the Midwest, playing and singing in cocktail lounges. Then she married Salesman Sid Landau ("I can't understand why people always laugh when I tell them Sid sells zippers") and moved to Brooklyn...
Times and prices have changed since the twenties, but the Secretary, Sid Perelman, goes on recording with the same sharp pencil. Listen to the Mocking Bird is the latest collection of his bits and skits in The New Yorker...
Fortified by his experience with the debating society, Sid Perelman has become a kind of secretary of society in general-the kind who doodles in the minutes book, makes faces at the principal speaker, and sneaks out in the middle of the meeting. Of late years, Perelman has done little more than sift the ashes of his satire (at considerably more than 30? an hour). Listen to the Mocking Bird contains a heap of clinkers, but enough live coals (Mortar and Pestle, and some book reviews) to keep Perelmaniacs hopping...