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...Mooney night was the most celebrated We, the People ever staged, but a certain Mr. X's six minutes last week provided a new high in schmalz. When tear-jerking Announcer Gabriel Heatter got to Mr. X there was a foggy sob in his voice. "On the afternoon of June 25, 1931," he lamented, "to a hospital in Jackson, Mississippi, police brought a well-dressed man who had collapsed on a city street. . . . Somewhere, somehow the link that bound him to the past had snapped. . . . The man became known as Mr. X and that man stands beside me tonight...
...which reputedly scared the British Government out of sticking up for Czechoslovakia. The "Cliveden Set" became a synonym for a sort of Fifth Column working on behalf of Germany behind the back of the British Government. Last week the Hostess of Cliveden did her best to convince a Manhattan sob sister that this conception was all wrong...
Died. Con Conrad (real name: Conrad K. Dober), 49, famed songwriter (Barney Google, Memory Lane, Margie), divorced husband of Actress Francine Larrimore, discoverer of Sob-singer Helen Morgan and Crooner Bing Crosby; after long illness; in Van Nuys, Calif...
Last week, departing for England on the Queen Mary with the ashes of her dead, Fannie Ward paused on the pier to sob into a microphone: "My friends of America. . . . I'm taking my two loved ones on their last journey . . . and I say this to every mother and father in the world: Don't let your children go in the air unless you want to suffer what I am today...
...Prohibition era, sad-eyed, quail-like Helen Morgan, with he. tousled black hair, piano-sitting technique and a voice like a pent-up sob, was the best known torch singer of them all. In the sweeping Americana of Edna Ferber's Showboat she was the modern note. Her House of Morgan was the nattiest in Manhattan's satiny nightclub belt. Last week in Philadelphia, plumper, still tousled, sad-eyed and sobby-voiced, Helen Morgan sang in three-a-day variety at cheap Fay's Theatre on Market Street. The matinee audience was unenthusiatic. "I got the bird...