Word: wynne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Editor Patterson to the usefulness of features-love advice, health and beauty hints, dress patterns, quilt patterns, child care, "How He Proposed," "Classroom Boners," "Embarrassing Moments," "Minute Mysteries," etc., etc. A single issue of the News contains about 30 of them. One such is the News' "eminent astrologer," Wynn (Sidney K. Bennett, who rates himself above the late Evangeline Adams), with daily advice such as: ". . . Be sure all your policies are for the good of others in addition to yourself and go ahead definitely toward a worthy goal! Avoid temper." Wynn also offered a free "personal horoscope...
Israel Edwin Leopold (Ed Wynn), president of Amalgamated Broadcasting System, organized last spring (after many postponements it began broadcasting in September), resigned his post. Announced reason: the discovery that he was a showman, not a businessman. Ota Gygi (Hun garian-born, onetime court violinist to Alfonso XIII) and Henry Goldman, businessman, who ran the company all summer while Mr. Wynn was in Hollywood, remain in charge. Ed Wynn became once more Texaco's broadcasting Fire Chief...
...than 1900. Her father, Jack West, was a prizefighter and theatre bouncer. Her sister played in vaudeville as Beverly Osborne. In vaudeville, Mae West developed her figure with an acrobatic act in which she lifted a 500-lb. weight, supported three 150-lb. male assistants. She played with Ed Wynn in Sometime, shimmied in Shubert revues, made her name on the Manhattan stage with Diamond Lil, in which she was a genial prostitute. The enormous swan-shaped bed which appeared on the stage in Diamond Lil came from Mae West's home, once belonged to Diamond Jim Brady...
Bland, competent Jewish Jack Pearl (German-American comic), works hard for laughs,leads around a small,bewildered dachshund, tumbles about the stage with Lyda Roberti. Like Funnyman Ed Wynn, Mr. Pearl will close his show one night a week for radio broadcasting. Meritorious are Carl Randall and Barbara Newberry who, while dancing in an easy, effortless manner, delight everybody by doing tricks with thimbles. Best tunes: "My Cousin in Milwaukee"; "Where...
...comedians hold the first six places. Different parts of the country have different favorites. The South still prefers Amos 'n' Andy who used to be national favorites. The Northwest prefers the German lingo of Jack Pearl. Eddie Cantor leads in New England and the Middle West. Ed Wynn won in Chicago...