Word: vaudevillian
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Divorced. James John ("Jimmy") Walker, onetime Mayor of New York; by Janet Allen Walker, plump onetime vaudevillian; in Miami, Fla. Grounds: desertion...
...Elsewhere you state that hurly is at least a thousand years old and the potato was not known in Europe until the 16th century. If you must link the potato with something you might tie it to the American game la crosse; 'twould be more accurate, less cheaply vaudevillian...
...contract by Columbia), Mae Clarke was once a dancer at the Manhattan Everglades Club. A table for three in Manhattan's Tavern restaurant was reserved for them daily. Cinemactress Clarke left the Everglades after a short appearance in The Noose to act in vaudeville. She married and divorced Vaudevillian Lew Brice, went to Hollywood two years ago. She lives with & supports her family which had financial difficulties when her father, a motion picture theatre organist, lost his job at the advent of the talkies...
Somebody was bound to start fun-poking at the late greatly ballyhooed Byrd Antarctic Expedition. Vaudevillian Fred Allen has already made Manhattan audiences laugh about it in Three's a Crowd, but Bird Life at the Pole is the first full-length parody. The story is supposed to have been told to Mr. Gibbs in a low hurried voice by Commander Christopher Robin, who was sent to the Antarctic as a news stunt by Publisher Herbst. When the expedition's ship, the Lizzie Borden, got to the Panama Canal, she was towed through by a Mr. Burton, swimming...
Lucky Strikes. Lead-off endorser in the other campaign-of-the-week was no vaudevillian but Brig.-General Samuel McRoberts, Chairman of Chatham Phenix National Bank & Trust Co. Banker McRoberts said: "Making friends and holding them by a friendly up-to-date usefulness is the secret of success in business. This axiom has been the guiding force in the progress of Chatham Phenix National Bank & Trust Co. And it is obviously the guiding force in your business ?as evidenced by your use of ultra violet ray in the 'toasting' of the Lucky Strike tobaccos...