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...Spit & Polish. Variety-Philco's first Radio Hall of Fame had its points. Philco paid the costs, which were about a million and a half a year (for time and talent). Variety picked the talent. The first act, Jimmy Durante, was the best on the program. Growled The Durante, of Paul Whiteman's musicians: "What a band! What a band! I had an uncle once who could play like Whiteman. He played two instruments at the same time. With the left side of his mouth he played Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries. With the right side...
...Herald. Manager Watson runs El Paso's Mission Theater. "From the beginning," he writes, "the boys and some of the girls . . . decided they were going to run things as they pleased." Sometimes "when told not to roam the aisles, to quit talking, smoking, etc., they would sneer or spit in your face." Plenty of the young folks smoked marijuana. In the Mission's first three months, Manager Watson lost three customers by sudden death. The Mission, Mr. Watson observes, "is not a class movie...
...methodical. He made a fetish of writing things down in his clear, clipped style-with no metaphors, pseudo or otherwise. He made the A.E.F. drill. He insisted that infantrymen be taught to shoot, though the French clucked. The French depended on hand grenades. He was more than ever the spit-&-polish disciplinarian. To his officers "Black Jack" (the nickname he picked up when he was with the Negro loth) was God. To the enlisted men he was both God and devil. Some remembered him striding across a muddy field of France with his face hard and his uniform immaculate. Others...
...nowhere appeared three terrified small boys. With a quavering cry of "Mr. Sousa!" they spit, as one man, on the sidewalk and fled for their lives...
Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr., spit & image of the romantic comedian,* took his Army physical in Los Angeles, awaited induction. He and his brother Sydney used to be energetic little globetrotters. Rarely publicized in recent years Charlie Jr. has been studying at prep and military schools, is now 18. Sid, 18 next March, hopes to get into the Army Air Forces...