Word: webb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Musical?A M E R i c A ' s SWEETHEART (splendid, with Rodgers & Hart music); FINE & DANDY (Joe Cook & machines); GIRL CRAZY (splendid, with George & Ira Gershwin music); THE NEW YORKERS (splendid, with Cole Porter music); THREE'S A CROWD (Clifton Webb, Libby Holman, "Admiral" Fred Allen); You SAID IT (Funnyman Lou Holtz as a collegian...
...before the last curtain by the towering, sinister figure of the real inspector general. A few hours before the opening performance, 325-lb. Actor Julian Winter, 39, fought off his wife and father, pushed himself out of an eighth-story window, plunged to his death (just missing Dancer Clifton Webb's chauffeur) because he was afraid he would not be a success as Gogol's ill-smelling hospital commissioner...
...venture, Partners Hall and La Varre quarreled, and Partner Hall sought an injunction to restrain Partner La Varre from obtaining operating control. To protect himself, Hall had to go to the court of appeals for a decision declaring him an equal partner with La Varre. But one J. T. Webb Jr. of Macon, Ga. was appointed by Federal court as commissioner to manage the newspapers pending their sale. La Varre ejected Commissioner Webb from the Columbia Record office, went to jail for contempt. He emerged to fight a petition by Partner Hall for the sale of the papers. He lost...
Passfield Explains. In London His Majesty's harassed Colonial Secretary, gnomelike Baron Passfield (Sidney Webb), wrote a letter to the London Times, tried to show that the policy set forth in his statement does not violate the Balfour Declaration under which Jews have been promoting their "National Home" in Palestine...
Musical?FINE & DANDY (Joe Cook), GIRL CRAZY (music by the brothers Gershwin), PRINCESS CHARMING (elaborate) THREE'S A CROWD (Libby Holman, Free Allen, Clifton Webb...