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...Angeles store window. Standing beside a male dummy, he defied spectators to make him laugh or to tell which figure was human. Some four months ago a Japanese named Toraichi Kono ran into Al Blake. Well-known in Hollywood. Kono was once Charlie Chaplin's valet and private secretary, now has a small business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: Secret Agent | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

...last they came to Benny. He read his speech, with a crack for all comedians present. and an introduction for each of lis assistants (for his famed Negro valet: 'Next week I start Charley's Aunt, and ;hat's one picture Rochester won't steal; he won't be in it."). When the party finished, it was 4 a.m., everybody was right, and they all went home. NBC was proud of its show for Showman Benny. It should have been: the blowout alone cost over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: All Hail to Jack Benny! | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

...Homolka standing out as Vasiliev, the Bolshevik bloodhound's bloodhound. Both Clark Gable and Hedy get on the Reds' blacklist, he because his journalistic scoops have been smuggled out of Stalinland and she because her father (tap irvisaged Felix Bressart) was too nosey. But though Hedy's only a valet's daughter, she can wear as well as press the pants. Stealing a Russian tank, she leads Gable and half the Red horde in a Balkan invasion as part of one of the funniest reels in film history. The picture as a whole, however, is not quite so hotchka...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Comrade X" | 3/1/1941 | See Source »

...Fancy my embarrassment," said one of this type to me, "if my valet spoke as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 24, 1941 | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

...Prime Minister's. The British press promptly hailed New Dealer Hopkins for refusing to bed in a London air-raid shelter, for getting up early and eating "a good breakfast with some good American coffee" in his room at Claridge's, for taking good-humoredly his British valet's suggestion that he buy plenty of English-type white shirts without attached collars and get himself some long woolen underwear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Churchill & the U. S. | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

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