Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Costs of Court. In Milwaukee, Mrs. John Elliott, haled into court for nonpayment of rent, tearfully told about her five children whom her husband had deserted, received donations of $73 from courtroom onlookers, $10 from the judge, $5 from Complainant Vincent McHugh...
Cultural Commander. Cugat's first shrewd step in 1927, after a turn as a cartoonist for the Los Angeles Times, was to join Vincent Lopez' orchestra. ("It was tough. I had never been in a dance hall in my life. I had lots to unlearn about music.") He soon unlearned enough to collect six Spanish musicians and book himself as a relief band in Los Angeles' gaudy Cocoanut Grove. Bashful couples were afraid of his Latin rhythms, so he hired a half-dozen tango experts to whirl unescorted ladies around the floor ("If women learned, their...
...keeping with that policy, is Patrick Hamilton's "Angel Street," the semi-psychological thriller which enjoyed a successful tour some four years ago and subsequently emerged as a Hollywood epic ("Gaslight") in 1944. If Francis Lederer's performance in the "name" role falls short of the standard set by Vincent Price in the original production, there is a compensating performance by a lesser-known member of the cast to preserve something of the essence of Hamilton's work...
Died. Frank Vincent Kelly, 66, one of the few absolute U.S. political bosses (Democratic chieftain of Brooklyn); after cerebral thrombosis; in Brooklyn...
Nelson Eddy (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Baritone standbys like Vincent Youmans' Great Day and Jerome Kern's 01' Man River...