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...City Slickers played Chloe straight, with all the tom-toms and jungle mating cries that everybody else affects, then gave it the business ("Chloe - where are you, you old bat you?"). They caught the nagging, namby-pamby nonsense of Glow-Worm. Their Cocktails for Two, to a 1934 sob ballad, was such a jukebox favorite that Victor made 150,000 pressings with it on both sides - so that as soon as one side wore out the other side could be played to death...
Died. Beatrice ("Advice to the Lovelorn") Fairfax (real name: Marie Manning Gasch), 70, the first journalistic heartmender; of a heart attack; in Washington. The 1898 brain child of 20-year-old Sob Sister Marie Manning and the late Hearstling Arthur Brisbane, "Advice" soon was a must for 200 papers. Marie married, others took over. But 1929 sent her back to title, typewriter and text: "Dry your eyes, roll up your sleeves and dig for a practical solution...
...Vejvoda scribbled down Modran-ska Polka (his first composition) for his small stringed orchestra which played in the village park. Only in 1934 did he let it be published and words set to it. One Vasek Zeman retitled it Skoda Lasky (Jilted Love) and wrote these sob-saccharine lyrics in Czech...
...Letters reflect the brimming Woollcott emotions. "I just cried quietly," he wrote to Noel Coward after seeing the Lamb of God's movie, In Which We Serve. "Courage is the only thing that makes me cry." After previewing Goodbye, Mr. Chips, he burst into "a great, astonishing sob" and fell down the projection-room stairs. "One of the characters in Of Mice and Men," he wrote to Harpo Marx, "is an amiable and gigantic idiot. . . . I tried to get [Heywood] Broun to take this part and he was very hurt." "Just a big dreamer," said Harpo of Woollcott, "with...
...houses. No biography can hope to pull up any blinds; it can only poke under carpets and rummage in desk drawers. In Good Night, Sweet Prince (Viking; $3.50) Barrymore's lusty pal Gene Fowler (The Great Mouthpiece, The Great Magoo) has done just that. Gaudy, gossipy, with a sob-sister lining to its Rabelaisian hide, Good Night, Sweet Prince honors Barrymore without emasculating him. From it the Great Profile paradoxically emerges both more tarnished and more dazzling, more fantastic and more real...