They Don’t Mean Any Harm closed after just a week (15 performances), but it would give rising young star Marion Burns (top left) her debut on a New York stage. Also appearing was veteran actor O.P. Heggie, who had to dial up the schmaltz to play a character so sweet (the role...
…Alain (aka Daniel Brustlein) offered up a flautist who found beauty in his routine life… …and we close with Perry Barlow, and motherhood among the smart set… Next Time: Radio City… Posted on November 17, 2022Categories advertising, celebrities, cinema, Great Depression, literature, New...
SINGULAR STAR…Clockwise, from top left, Mary Pickford in a publicity photo, circa 1910; Pickford visits close friend and screenwriter Frances Marion during filming of Straight is the Way (1921); Douglas Fairbanks and Pickford in the early 1920s; Pickford with a movie camera in 1916—in additi...
…and Charles of the Ritz used a combination of vanity, snob appeal and class anxiety to promote their latest beauty ensemble… The comics glimpsed the foibles of the upper classes, including this terrific entry by 22-year-oldBen Hur Baz, a Mexico-born artist who would go on to become fa...
…and reminiscent of humor in the vein ofRalph Barton, Rea Irvinlaunched a series of the world’s “beauty spots”… Next Time: A Visit to Minskyville… Dirge for a Dirigible There was a time when dirigibles were considered the future of transatlantic transportation. In the 1930s they coul...
Nov. 30, 1929 cover byAdolph K. Kronengold. One writer, however, who received consistent praise from Parker wasErnest Hemingway,whom she first met in 1926. In the pages of the 1920sNew Yorker,Parker particularly lauded Hemingway’s short story collections,In Our Time(1925) andMen Without Wo...
LUMP IN HIS THROAT…Bing CrosbywithMarion Daviesin the 1933 filmGoing Hollywood. (IMDB) …Brubaker also shared this prescient observation from American astronomerVesto Slipher… …Slipher (1875–1969) would live long enough to confirm his statement…the first full-disk “true color” picture of ...
…Mosher also took in light entertainment of the live-action variety withMarion DaviesandBillie Doveproviding some amusement inBlonde of the Follies,although the picture could have used a bit moreJimmy Durante, billed as a co-star but making an all-too-brief appearance… ...
NEWSMAKERS CIRCA 1933 includedGeorge Bernard Shaw(left), here being escorted by actorsCharlie ChaplinandMarion Daviesfrom a Hollywood luncheon hosted by Davies in March 1933; other headlines touted the return of legal beer and the suspension of the gold standard by the Roosevelt administration—everyon...
…Brackett enjoyed the “feminine beauty” offered by aGeorge Whitechorus that included the “Gale Quadruplets,” described in thePlaybillas “The only Quadruplets in the world appearing on the stage”… …although in fact the Gale Quadruplets were actually two sets of twins: June and Jane,...