Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...August and September numbers have already gone to press). Patrick intends to make Holiday bigger, do something about its cookie-cutter picture layouts. Fuller made clear: there will be no more space for the poor man's holiday. "I don't want stories about how to cook supper in the backyard or how to save up 50? to go to Coney Island. I want articles about . . . what to do and what to see at Yellowstone Park. And in between, articles about what to wear at such places. That's what people want from a magazine called Holiday...
...eating shrimp while you're singing your heart out. The second show they're all slightly tight. The third show they're loaded." She went from there to the Paramount Theater and later a 26-week contract alternating with Perry Como on radio's Chesterfield Supper Club. Soon she was rated the most-listened-to female vocalist and was the most frequently photographed sweater girl in radio. Her recording of Symphony sold 500,000 records. Her 1945 income: $125,000. She now tops all popular girl singers but velvet-voiced, $250,000-a-year Dinah Shore...
Last week Columnist Rose, who uses a young advertising man named Lee Rogow as a legman-but needs no ghostwriter-wondered if he was getting read. To wangle fan mail, he offered a free champagne supper for the ten best lists of the top ten "glamor-pusses of 1946." (In his own, he tucked in Wife Eleanor Holm, onetime swimming champion.) His take in four days: 7,400 letters...
Last week, besides his three-a-night routine at the Copacabana supper club, Peter Hayes also: 1) began a four-a-day run at the Roxy Theater (thereby upping his weekly take to $4,000); 2) quit radio writing, acting and singing (because he wanted time to sleep); 3) landed a principal comedy role in the Nunnally Johnson-George Kaufman fall play Park Avenue; 4) was offered, but had to refuse because of previous commitments, the serious Eddie Dowling role in The Glass Menagerie road company; 5) received a $30,000 offer to do one movie for International Pictures...
...Milan, where St. Ambrose preached of peace and Leonardo painted his Last Supper, a handsome young bandit, Ezio Barbieri, was on trial last week for his part in the April revolt at San Vittore prison. A woman shouted to Barbieri that his newborn baby weighed 8½ Ibs. Modern Milan's son shouted back across the courtroom: "Is the Tommy gun included in that weight...