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...Boston. Says warmly homely Elsa: "Boston was puzzled by anyone who even looks like me." Variety's Boston correspondent reported that her routine was "weighted down with too much sameness of material." There was no reason for it to be. Since her teen-age days in a Soho supper club (where she sang a song that begins, "Chase me, Charley, over the barley, I've lost the leg of my drawers"), she had picked up plenty of material. Among other things, Elsa, onetime student of Isadora Duncan, confesses that "I am a bit of a dancer and make...
...What I want to explain is why I killed my wife. Molly was a good woman. All our friends thought she was a wonderful wife. I suppose she was [but] whatever I would say to her, she would talk about something else ... 'Is supper ready, Molly?' [I would ask]. 'I'm going to try using peanut oil instead of olive oil as a base for my salad dressing,' she would say ... So I decided on the spur of the moment I was really going to make her say yes or no. I said: 'Molly...
...Last Supper," says Dom Gregory, "Jesus was performing the ordinary Jewish method of saying grace. He performed the usual four actions before supper and the usual three actions after. He took the bread, blessed it, broke it and gave it; He took the cup of wine, blessed it and passed it around. But at this last supper, He told those with Him to do this accustomed thing with a slightly new meaning-'This is My Body which is for you. Do this for the recalling...
Brief Encounter. In Dallas, Mrs. Minnie E. Cope won the Texas State Fair's husband-calling contest, explained her technique: "I just imagine he's an hour late for supper and I have spied him talking to a pretty woman...
Nothing was heard from the Met. Yma sang in a folk-song festival in Carnegie Hall, did a turn in Manhattan's sophisticated supper club, the Blue Angel. Last year, she made Arthur Godfrey's radio show twice, We the People once. But until she hit Hollywood Bowl a fortnight ago, Yma never really caught...