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That doesn't happen till 1946. He'll probably just shake down some stoolie and take his watch as "evidence."
The digital clock has ruined the alarm clock ticking in a plain box as an element of suspense in movies nowadays. Who says newer is better.just as a package containing a ticking bomb arrives. I
...Leo Durocher is today expected to sign a $20,000 contract to manage the Dodgers in 1940. The announcement came from team president Larry MacPhail at the baseball winter meetings in Cincinnati, who said that he and the scrappy little manager "got together for about one minute" to discuss terms. MacPhail would not confirm the salary, but it is expected that Durocher will receive at least a $5000 increase over his 1939 salary, along with various performance bonuses. "Lippy Leo" amazed the baseball world by bringing the Dodgers to a third place finish in his first season at the helm....
..."Juliette" writes to Helen Worth, offering to provide "French conversation" in exchange for dancing lessons. How could that go wrong?....
..."Gone With The Wind" won't hit the neighborhood theatres until the fall of 1940. Such is the prediction by Herbert Cohn, who anticipates, based on the rapid sale of advance tickets for scheduled shows in the Broadway cinemas, that the Selznick super-production will shatter all box office records. The picture is three hours and forty minutes long, and is not expected to be cut when it goes into general release, meaning neighborhood houses will have to screen it at elevated prices to cover the loss of an additional daily showing. "You will pay more to see 'Gone With The Wind," he concludes, "than you will 'Love On Toast.'" (Hey, I'll have you know I'd pay fifty cents to see Stella Adler and John Payne in a movie about toast any day of the week. Who needs Gable and Leigh, anyway?)....
...The famous Radio Rogues, ace impersonators of radio personalities ranging from Kate Smith to Adolf Hitler, are all Brooklyn boys. Eddie Bartell, Jimmy Hollywood, and Sidney Chatton are big applause-getters on Broadway this season in Olsen and Johnson's hit "Hellzapoppin," and tell Jane Corby that they broke in over Brooklyn station WLTH back in the 1920s doing their impressions of the Happiness Boys, Phil Cook, and other stars of the day, and the act just grew from there. They've appeared in many motion pictures, still do quite a lot of radio work, and show no sign of losing their stage appeal. Their goal? "To buy a $1500 fur coat," they say. "We can each take turns wearing it."....
...Washington Redskins halfback Ed Justice could face a lifetime ban from the National Football League, with league officials investigating a claim that he hit the referee during the Giants-Redskins game this past Sunday. Referee Bill Halloran says Justice struck him during a melee on the field following a call that disallowed a Washington field goal that could have given the Redskins the game.....
...Jimmie Lunceford's recent hit song "Tain't What You Do" has been bowlderized by the radio networks, who concluded that its use of the word "greasy" is too indelicate to be broadcast. The word will be changed to "easy" when the song is broadcast.....
Too bad Frankie Germano wasn't a Giants fan.
And the best part is that Magerkurth is right into it. "OK YOU WANNA GO, LETS GO!" He must've read about Halloran and resolved that when his time came, he'd be ready.
Meanwhile, in today's Daily News, consider the plight of poor Dick Tracy --
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Tracy has been suspended in the well and left to his fate by a fish-faced character named Stooge Viller, who is in league with a corrupt biologist who has come up with a way to use fresh tendons taken from butcher-shop pigs' feet to rig up guns so they fire without needing a hand to squeeze the trigger.
Dan Dunn, the schmuck, wouldn't have a chance.
Yup, the real beauty of the picture is the ump swinging up from the ground. No turn the other cheek stuff going on here.
It wasn't just violence, either. Sex reared its head from time to time -- as in today's episode of "Harold Teen," the granddaddy of all "teen humor" strips. It seems that Harold's longtime girlfriend Lillums Lovewell has given him the brush to take up with Marion "Truck" McCluskey, an ingratiating fellow with the looks and manner of a cheap vaudeville hoofer. Truck hangs around the Lovewell house trying to get in good with Lillums' family, which leads to this scene...
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You never saw Betty or Veronica dressed like that in Riverdale.
...The family of a late banker from Mineola who left his entire estate to a former actress is contesting the will. The late Charles W. Beall left his $50,000 estate to Miss Ninon Bunyea of Oceanside, whom Beall's family say caused Beall to drink alcohol and spend large sums on her, as she "assumed increasing control of his life and private affairs."....
...Midriffs Are In Clear In Resort Clothes! (In Bensonhurst, Joe Punchclock looks up from the paper and yells "Hey Sal! What's a midriff? And Sally replies "It's what ya gotta suck in when ya wanna go out!")....
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Be afraid.
Be *very* afraid.
And the FACE EATING DOG finally leaps into action -- but seems to mutate into some kind of giant iguana or gila monster as it heads for its rendezvous with Dook.
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Maybe Leona should call down the page and see if Dan rents him out.
Now at the Patio, it's "Allegheny Uprising" and "Fast and Furious."
N.B., I think Sue looks better in glasses even though there was a big anti-glasses-on-girls bias in the Era.