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queries. But before we can think of an answer it goes on: WAS IT BECAUSE HIS LIFE WAS THREATENED BY AN IRATE HUBAND OR DOES HE FEAR STICKUP MEN WHEN HE GOES HOME LATE AT NIGHT TO JACKSON HEIGHTS AS HE TOLD THE POLICE? Well, Mr. Teletype Operator, your guess is as good as Mercury's and we'll now forget the tantalizing ticker tape and go on to other things.
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Moisture gathered in the eyes of Groucho Marx as he read an appealing note from a Bronx mother: "Please, Mr. Marx." she begged, "won't you come up to my house and say funny things to my boy? He's awfully sick but the doctor says your visit would help him. He just worships
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you." His heart touched, Groucho's impulse was to go Bronxward without delay. But he didn't dare — his own two children were ill with the whooping cough and he might carry contagion to this already sick little boy. So he did the next best thing. He summond Eddie Garr, the mimic, handed him his trick mustache and sent him up to that boy's house. Garr spent two hours impersonating Groucho at the bedside of the youngster who never suspected his hero wasn't there in person.
Since Joe Penner, capitalizing his radio popularity, displayed sensational drawing power at theatre box offices, no vaudeville or movie house program is complete without one or more ether entertainers on the bill. The way things are going is demonstrated by the record made one week recently by one circuit when thirty air favorites were distributed on the stages of Loew's. Among the artists were: John Fogarty, Richard Himber and orchestra, James Wallington, the Pickens Sisters, Boi'rah Minnevitch and his Harmonica Rascals, Do Re Mi Trio, Sisters of the Skillett, Tony Wons, Phil Cook, Charles Carlile, Jimmy Durante, Harry Rose, Eddie Peabody, George Hall and orchestra, Gypsy Nina and Tito
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STUDIO SIDELIGHTS
Shirley Howard says she is interested in sports — but not enough to marry one. . . . Freddie Rich, the band man, and Jack Pearl, the Baron, are cousins. . . . Jessica Dragonette is saving something for a rainy day — and it isn't a raincoat, either. She lives on 10 per cent of her salary and banks the balance. . . . {Continued on page 64)
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