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Unfortunately, for dentistry, the bride got pretty sore at this toothy folderol during rehearsal, accused her beloved of being more eager to advertise his wares than her charms. At that point the groom slapped the bride. The bride retaliated in kind, and also refused to go through with the nuptials until all references to dentures were eliminated from the ceremony. Eventually she had her way. The course of television love met further obstacles. Before the bride arrived at the studio altar, in came Fan Dancer Faith Bacon. Clad in a brassiere and a G-string, with feathers in her hair...
...sore were delegates at ASCAP, whose royalty rates will be jacked up in January, that they would not talk to the outfit's representatives. Also in the convention doghouse were the reporters of Variety, which plugged ASCAP in a special issue a few weeks ago. Firm were N.A.B. bigwigs in their conviction that ASCAP would either come to lower terms with them by New Year's or be read forever...
Paunchy, 31-year-old Robert Ardrey is now in Hollywood. He is convinced that Thunder Rock would have been more successful in the U. S. if European conditions then had been as crucial as they are today. Sore at the Group Theatre, Ardrey feels that the American production of Thunder Rock was bungled. He is not worried about the fact that his royalties from London are frozen by war restrictions. He has made enough in Hollywood to keep him going for the next five years, intends to quit the cinema in October, have another try at Broadway...
Griping, mutinous, sore, united only in the fear that the party would be left without its one big vote-getter, the professionals grumbled as they went to Chicago's Stadium on the first night, to sit on the red-painted chairs in the vast arena, hear the old Hamlet of the House, Speaker William B. Bankhead, elocute his meandering way through half an hour of the corniest Southern oratory most of them had ever heard...
...Weiss, vice president and general manager of the 31-station Don Lee Broadcasting System network on the Pacific Coast, sat in his Los Angeles office listening to Adolf Hitler address the Reichstag (accompanied by a running translation into English). An ex-cavalryman, Vice President Weiss soon began to get sore at Hitler. Presently, after chewing a fat cigar to tatters, he remarked to his assistants: "This is the damndest program I've ever heard. This guy Hitler is a slicker." Thereupon, he popped into his secretary's office, dictated a two-sentence statement, stomped down a corridor...