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...Fanny Brice and promptly began his courtship by writing her a vaudeville act. Two years later they were married. Fanny had long been Broadway's No. 1 comedienne; to her flock of friends, Billy was just "Mr. Brice," a noisy little guy who carried drinks and got underfoot. Billy began looking around for an equalizer. In 1930, he decided to become a Broadway producer...
Jack Benny headed right back where he started from: vaudeville. But 15 years before the microphone had made the boards seem mighty soft underfoot. When Jack quit the stage in 1931, he was making a mere $1,000 a week. Now he would open on Broadway, at the Roxy, for what looked like the biggest pay ever shelled out for a personal appearance. Variety's guess: $40,000 a week...
...Spain out of the war ("Many people thought that I had gone to Spain to appease"). Arriving soon after the collapse of France, he played a hand at first "with nothing higher in it than a five of clubs." German prestige was boundless; German spies and informers were thick underfoot. A "very sinister" Turk named Lazar, attached to the German Embassy although he was a Jew, controlled the Spanish press. Seated before signed photographs of Hitler and Mussolini, Dictator Franco received the British envoy with polite disdain. "Why don't you end the war now?" Franco asked...
Lastly, "the humanitarian goal of (the Zionist) organization" has not, as Wald claims, "been trampled underfoot in the headlong pursuit of a political state." Palestine has become the only hope for the more existence of millions of Jews, not to mention things like the dignity...
...queer day for the tidy, twisty mining town of Bentleyville, Pa. (pop. 4,000). Over the deserted tipple of the nearby Hillman Coal & Coke Co. the Stars & Stripes dropped wanly. Bentleyville's miners, already in their second day of idleness (they had walked out early), were underfoot everywhere, painting and patching their boxlike houses on the still-green hills, playing catch in the streets, window-shopping, lounging in front of the Methodist Church. On sunny Main Street, Bentleyville's housewives hustled through their marketing with a troubled air. Unless Mr. Lewis won or called off the strike...