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...Burton Kendall Wheeler's isolationist crusade fell into more normal perspective. Senator Wheeler's attack on Wendell Willkie as "the intrepid Trojan horse of the Republican Party"-a likely candidate for the front page a few days earlier-appeared quietly on page 17 of the New York World-Telegram. And word was reputed to have gone down to Publisher Howard's editors to lay off hereafter such features as the identification-tag melodrama...
Playwright Barry replied to the generally unfavorable criticism of Liberty Jones with an article in the New York World-Telegram: ". . . I knew that to be what I wanted it to be it must have a childlike candor, a simplicity, an innocence. ... I wanted the play to have a pristine quality-to look like a fresh-minted dime and to spin like one. I think it does...
...circulation: 3,265), the Strubings' local paper. Of New York papers only the Daily News and PM gave it conventional tabloid prominence. All other New York papers including the tabloid Mirror and Hearst's Journal & American played it down with brief reports slurring the details. One, the World-Telegram, in most of its reports even avoided mentioning Mrs. Strubing's name...
...Perplexed bookies kept the odds at about the previous week's figure: 7-to-5 on Roosevelt. The New York World-Telegram figured that ardent voters had backed their favorites with some...
When Manhattan's Palace Theater (most famed two-a-day house in the U.S.) started to show pictures in 1932, U. S. vaudeville was through. Last week, vaudeville got its first full-length biography, by Feature Writer Douglas Gilbert of the New York World-Telegram. His book, American Vaudeville, Its Life and Times -though sometimes more of a catalogue than a history, gives a detailed account of the variety show from its rough beer-hall days through its great era when Italian Singer Tony Pastor purified it, to its death. It is a must book for rememberers of such...