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...candid cameraddict, Douglas Leigh used to tramp along Broadway taking pictures of possible sign locations. Then he would concoct novel advertising schemes, take his propositions to prospective clients. Soon his company, Douglas Leigh, Inc., became famous for such dis plays as its Kool cigarets penguin who winked 3,000 times an hour, its A. & P. coffeepot that emitted actual steam, and its Ballantine's Beer & Ale clown who pitched quoits. In five years the company has erected $1,000,000 worth of electric signs around Times Square, its assets have ballooned to $500,000, and its 28-year...
...meshed, the two never pulled apart, stuck together even in Holly wood (Love Me Tonight, Mississippi). Except for Blue Moon, which was an independent song hit, their best songs (Mountain Greenery, My Heart Stood Still, I've Got Five Dollars, Ten Cents a Dance, The Lady Is a Tramp) have come right out of their shows...
...this Their Majesties, and the Duke and Duchess of Kent, laughed hugely, also at Mr. Miller's joke about the tramp who said "Lady, I haven't eaten for three days," and her reply, "Well, my good man, this can't go on-you'll simply have to force yourself...
...unbecoming Italian accent, the Group Theatre's veteran Morris Carnovsky is the convincingly pathetic Old World parent, bewildered by a reckless new generation. Hollywood's Frances Farmer, who spent the summer in barn repertory preparing for her Broadway stage debut, was inappropriately cast as "a tramp from Newark," her fresh-faced prettiness belying every tough trait she tried to show...
...world's most potent warship, Britain's famed Hood, was ordered to Balearic waters last week, ordered this week to Barcelona to investigate the sinking of a British tramp steamer by an airplane which the London Daily Herald insisted bore marks showing that its bomber pilot was Bruno Mussolini...