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That doesn't happen till 1946. He'll probably just shake down some stoolie and take his watch as "evidence."
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The Era -- Day By Day
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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.
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Reports from Finnish forces say they are holding back the Red Army in southeastern and Arctic territories, even as reports from Moscow state that Red forces are making progress in the north and south against the Finns. The Soviet reports do confirm that advances are being slowed by land mines. Soviet reports also state that bombing of civilian targets by Red aircraft is prohibited "and will be severely punished." The Finns report 53 persons dead as a result of last week's air raids, and many more wounded or missing, and there are statements from Finnish authorities that a new air attack, "possibly involving poison gas," may occur once weather permits.
It is unlikely the United States will cut diplomatic ties with the Soviet Union. So states "an adequately qualified spokesman" to the United Press, on condition of anonymity. There is also a "semi-official" belief that the US will not recognize a Russian conquest of Finland, should that be the result of the current conflict.
Clothing rationing goes into effect today in Germany, with "reliable informants" reporting that no ration cards will be issued to Jews.
The U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the convinction of Federal Judge Martin T. Manton on charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice. The court ruled that the "evidence of guilt is convincing," and directed that Manton serve his sentence of two years in prison and pay a fine of $10,000. Manton was found guilty of accepting a bribe from co-defendant George F. Spector, whose conviction was also upheld by the high court.
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.
Investigation by the Amen Office into the affairs of bail-bond racketeer Abraham Frosch has revealed a list of recipients of $2 and $10 paid to police lieutenants and other law enforcement officials. Frosch, who faces a sentence of up to twenty years in prison after pleading guilty to five counts of fraud, was reported to be in Assistant Attorney General Amen's office again today, and was said to be telling investigators what sounded like "the real stuff."
A former "angel" in the religious cult led by Father Divine was in Manhattan court today testifying against the cult leader in a lawsuit seeking to recover money given by her to Divine. Mrs. Verinda Brown claimed that Father Divine told her to withdraw her funds from the bank and entrust them to him, claiming that "while banks may fail, his treasure will not." Mrs. Brown broke with the cult after, in her words, Divine "became too grasping." She had turned a total of $4476 over to the cult leader, whom she had met at a party at his three-story home in Sayville.
The son of Brooklyn's Assistant Superintendant of Schools gave up his $82,000 seat on the New York Stock Exchange in favor of a new life as a $22.70 per week job as a day laborer in a cast iron pipe foundry in Alabama. James J. Reynolds Jr. tells the Eagle he couldn't sleep at night thinking about the way he was making money on Wall Street, believing that by doing so he was taking food out of the mouths of others, and abandoned finance to take a job in the foundry. His brother, magazine writer Quentin Reynolds, says the story isn't quite as quixotic as it sounds -- he believes his brother to be "learning the business from the ground up," and expects him to return to New York as an executive with the pipe-making firm. James Reynolds Jr. spent five years as a member of the firm of Townsend, Graff & Co., and was at the time the youngest member of the Stock Exchange. He acknowledges that he plans to spend a year with the pipe foundry before seeking "a good job."
A former accountant in the city Department of Finance faces grand larceny charges in connection with a $100,000 sales tax fraud scheme. Samuel Levy of Manhattan was arrested yesterday after a three-month investigation of fraud in the department.
Communist Party leader Earl Browder will not speak this week at Brooklyn College, after college officials voted to block an invitation for Browder to speak before a meeting of the undergraduate Karl Marx Club. A faculty committee determined over the weekend that such an appearance would be "ill advised at this time."
Meanwhile, Browder arrived at Federal Court in Manhattan expecting to go on trial on two counts of passport fraud, but found that no judge was available to hear is case. The trial has been adjourned until December 18th. When reporters challenged the Communist leader to comment on the Russo-Finnish war, and whether that conflict will lead the US Communist Party to suspend its ties with the Soviet Union, Browder only smiled and said "I can see right now that I am not being interviewed this morning."
In Aberdeen, Washington on Saturday night, a mob of approximately four hundred persons destroyed a Communist meeting hall, besieging a meeting of about twenty five members inside the building. No injuries were reported, but the two hour attack "virtually wrecked the building." An official of the organization blamed the attack on the Dies Committee and its "witch hunting campaign."
A 30 year old St. Marks Place man faces a charge of felonious assault after beating his common-law wife. Francisco Esposito, an employee of the Highway Department, was charged in Brooklyn Felony Court with attacking 27-year-old Marie Roy, a waitress, with his fists, and of burning her with a lit cigarette, following a quarrel in their apartment last night. Miss Roy is listed in "not critical" condition at Kings County Hospital with facial lacerations, a possible fractured skull, and second-degree burns.
A shabby itinerant musician who plays his cornet three nights a week at a Lower Manhattan restaurant turned out to be better off than he seemed after police arrested him for using a slug nickel in a Browadway elevated line turnstile. 54-year-old Nicholas Olskewesky was fined $25 in Bridge Plaza Court, where he admitted to authorites that he has over $48,000 in the bank. He told the court that he makes $40 a week working in a sweater factory along with what he makes playing his horn, and also admitted that he manufactured the slugs that were found in his possession at the time of his arrest, along with a ragged walled containing $891 in cash.
Ever wonder why there are so many fires in Brooklyn? Too many men standing around smoking cigarettes in their underwear.
A move is afoot in Geneva to oust the Soviet Union from the League of Nations in the wake of the Russo-Finnish war. The assembly will convene on December 11th. So far the organization has played "Rip Van Winkle" thruout the present European conflict.
Injection of the male sex hormone testosterone into female canaries causes them to sing bass. Such is the result of an experiment at Stanford University, which also found that the hormone makes the birds "vicious and warlike," attacking bits of string and making love to other female birds.
The Marx Brothers' latest picture "At The Circus" has its Brooklyn premiere today at Loew's Metropolitan, accompanied by Leslie Howard in "Intermezzo." Something for everyone.
Advance tickets are already sold out for the New York premiere of "Gone With The Wind," which will open simultaneously at the Astor and the Capitol on December 19th. The tickets went on sale Friday and were quickly exhausted. Lines formed hours before the ticket windows opened. In addition to the reserved-seat premiere screening, the New Years' Eve show at the Astor is also sold out.
"Juliette" writes to Helen Worth, offering to provide "French conversation" in exchange for dancing lessons. How could that go wrong?
The Giants will meet the Green Bay Packers in Milwaukee next Sunday to decide the National Football League championship for 1939, after the Giants edged out the Washington Redskins for the Eastern Division crown by a score of 9-7 yesterday at the Polo Grounds.
The farm director of the Chicago White Sox has been banned from the game by Commissioner Landis after evidence surfaced tying the official to a notorious Texas gambler. Robert S. Tarleton, formerly business manager of the White Sox' Dallas team in the Texas League, was accused of hiring a local bookmaker as a scout. The Landis ruling bans Tarleton from having any further connection with any club in Organized Baseball.
Prominent radio orchestra leaders are divided on Artie Shaw's statement that bandleaders are superfluous. Shaw, who recently abandoned his own band to go to Mexico, made the statement in an article in this week's Saturday Evening Post, and ignited a blaze of debate among his colleagues. Kay Kyser says a conductor is as essential to a band as the minute hand on a watch, while Larry Clinton says the fact that Shaw's band -- minus Shaw -- is continuing its successful engagement at the Hotel Lincoln is proof enough that what he says is true. Dr. Frank Black of NBC also agrees with Shaw, noting that the arranger plays a far more significant role in setting the tone of a popular band than the man with the baton.
George and Jo get a phone call from a jeweler offering them a million dollars for the diamonds, sight unseen. TAKE IT AND RUN!
Kinda late to be having second thoughts, toots.
AND THE FACE EATING DOG -- lies down quietly at Dan's feet. Sheesh. Way to string this out.
It is unlikely the United States will cut diplomatic ties with the Soviet Union. So states "an adequately qualified spokesman" to the United Press, on condition of anonymity. There is also a "semi-official" belief that the US will not recognize a Russian conquest of Finland, should that be the result of the current conflict.
Clothing rationing goes into effect today in Germany, with "reliable informants" reporting that no ration cards will be issued to Jews.
The U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the convinction of Federal Judge Martin T. Manton on charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice. The court ruled that the "evidence of guilt is convincing," and directed that Manton serve his sentence of two years in prison and pay a fine of $10,000. Manton was found guilty of accepting a bribe from co-defendant George F. Spector, whose conviction was also upheld by the high court.
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.
Investigation by the Amen Office into the affairs of bail-bond racketeer Abraham Frosch has revealed a list of recipients of $2 and $10 paid to police lieutenants and other law enforcement officials. Frosch, who faces a sentence of up to twenty years in prison after pleading guilty to five counts of fraud, was reported to be in Assistant Attorney General Amen's office again today, and was said to be telling investigators what sounded like "the real stuff."
A former "angel" in the religious cult led by Father Divine was in Manhattan court today testifying against the cult leader in a lawsuit seeking to recover money given by her to Divine. Mrs. Verinda Brown claimed that Father Divine told her to withdraw her funds from the bank and entrust them to him, claiming that "while banks may fail, his treasure will not." Mrs. Brown broke with the cult after, in her words, Divine "became too grasping." She had turned a total of $4476 over to the cult leader, whom she had met at a party at his three-story home in Sayville.
The son of Brooklyn's Assistant Superintendant of Schools gave up his $82,000 seat on the New York Stock Exchange in favor of a new life as a $22.70 per week job as a day laborer in a cast iron pipe foundry in Alabama. James J. Reynolds Jr. tells the Eagle he couldn't sleep at night thinking about the way he was making money on Wall Street, believing that by doing so he was taking food out of the mouths of others, and abandoned finance to take a job in the foundry. His brother, magazine writer Quentin Reynolds, says the story isn't quite as quixotic as it sounds -- he believes his brother to be "learning the business from the ground up," and expects him to return to New York as an executive with the pipe-making firm. James Reynolds Jr. spent five years as a member of the firm of Townsend, Graff & Co., and was at the time the youngest member of the Stock Exchange. He acknowledges that he plans to spend a year with the pipe foundry before seeking "a good job."
A former accountant in the city Department of Finance faces grand larceny charges in connection with a $100,000 sales tax fraud scheme. Samuel Levy of Manhattan was arrested yesterday after a three-month investigation of fraud in the department.
Communist Party leader Earl Browder will not speak this week at Brooklyn College, after college officials voted to block an invitation for Browder to speak before a meeting of the undergraduate Karl Marx Club. A faculty committee determined over the weekend that such an appearance would be "ill advised at this time."
Meanwhile, Browder arrived at Federal Court in Manhattan expecting to go on trial on two counts of passport fraud, but found that no judge was available to hear is case. The trial has been adjourned until December 18th. When reporters challenged the Communist leader to comment on the Russo-Finnish war, and whether that conflict will lead the US Communist Party to suspend its ties with the Soviet Union, Browder only smiled and said "I can see right now that I am not being interviewed this morning."
In Aberdeen, Washington on Saturday night, a mob of approximately four hundred persons destroyed a Communist meeting hall, besieging a meeting of about twenty five members inside the building. No injuries were reported, but the two hour attack "virtually wrecked the building." An official of the organization blamed the attack on the Dies Committee and its "witch hunting campaign."
A 30 year old St. Marks Place man faces a charge of felonious assault after beating his common-law wife. Francisco Esposito, an employee of the Highway Department, was charged in Brooklyn Felony Court with attacking 27-year-old Marie Roy, a waitress, with his fists, and of burning her with a lit cigarette, following a quarrel in their apartment last night. Miss Roy is listed in "not critical" condition at Kings County Hospital with facial lacerations, a possible fractured skull, and second-degree burns.
A shabby itinerant musician who plays his cornet three nights a week at a Lower Manhattan restaurant turned out to be better off than he seemed after police arrested him for using a slug nickel in a Browadway elevated line turnstile. 54-year-old Nicholas Olskewesky was fined $25 in Bridge Plaza Court, where he admitted to authorites that he has over $48,000 in the bank. He told the court that he makes $40 a week working in a sweater factory along with what he makes playing his horn, and also admitted that he manufactured the slugs that were found in his possession at the time of his arrest, along with a ragged walled containing $891 in cash.
Ever wonder why there are so many fires in Brooklyn? Too many men standing around smoking cigarettes in their underwear.
A move is afoot in Geneva to oust the Soviet Union from the League of Nations in the wake of the Russo-Finnish war. The assembly will convene on December 11th. So far the organization has played "Rip Van Winkle" thruout the present European conflict.
Injection of the male sex hormone testosterone into female canaries causes them to sing bass. Such is the result of an experiment at Stanford University, which also found that the hormone makes the birds "vicious and warlike," attacking bits of string and making love to other female birds.
The Marx Brothers' latest picture "At The Circus" has its Brooklyn premiere today at Loew's Metropolitan, accompanied by Leslie Howard in "Intermezzo." Something for everyone.
Advance tickets are already sold out for the New York premiere of "Gone With The Wind," which will open simultaneously at the Astor and the Capitol on December 19th. The tickets went on sale Friday and were quickly exhausted. Lines formed hours before the ticket windows opened. In addition to the reserved-seat premiere screening, the New Years' Eve show at the Astor is also sold out.
"Juliette" writes to Helen Worth, offering to provide "French conversation" in exchange for dancing lessons. How could that go wrong?
The Giants will meet the Green Bay Packers in Milwaukee next Sunday to decide the National Football League championship for 1939, after the Giants edged out the Washington Redskins for the Eastern Division crown by a score of 9-7 yesterday at the Polo Grounds.
The farm director of the Chicago White Sox has been banned from the game by Commissioner Landis after evidence surfaced tying the official to a notorious Texas gambler. Robert S. Tarleton, formerly business manager of the White Sox' Dallas team in the Texas League, was accused of hiring a local bookmaker as a scout. The Landis ruling bans Tarleton from having any further connection with any club in Organized Baseball.
Prominent radio orchestra leaders are divided on Artie Shaw's statement that bandleaders are superfluous. Shaw, who recently abandoned his own band to go to Mexico, made the statement in an article in this week's Saturday Evening Post, and ignited a blaze of debate among his colleagues. Kay Kyser says a conductor is as essential to a band as the minute hand on a watch, while Larry Clinton says the fact that Shaw's band -- minus Shaw -- is continuing its successful engagement at the Hotel Lincoln is proof enough that what he says is true. Dr. Frank Black of NBC also agrees with Shaw, noting that the arranger plays a far more significant role in setting the tone of a popular band than the man with the baton.
George and Jo get a phone call from a jeweler offering them a million dollars for the diamonds, sight unseen. TAKE IT AND RUN!
Kinda late to be having second thoughts, toots.
AND THE FACE EATING DOG -- lies down quietly at Dan's feet. Sheesh. Way to string this out.
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Durocher's $20,000 salary is ~ $370,000 in 2019 dollars
Current Dodger's manager Dave Roberts (according to a USA Today article) made $1.1 million in 2019.
Interestingly, it seems manager salaries in MLB have been coming down the last decade.
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A bit more information than I need in the ad's copy.
Sounds like the plot from a Fred Astaire movie.
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Kinda late to be having second thoughts, toots.....
Yup, she has to own it - she started that ball rolling.
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Fritz Kuhn will spend the next 2 1/2 to 5 years in Sing Sing, with Judge James G. Wallace handing down sentence this morning in Manhattan General Sessions Court. Judge Wallace dismissed the German-American Bund leader as "an ordinary small-time forger and thief" in passing sentence. Kuhn had nothing to say to reporters as he was led away by police in front of a small crowd of subdued Bundsmen. With time off for good behavior he could be out of prison at the end of twenty months.
The United States is expected to join with Latin American nations in a Pan-American condemnation of the Soviet attack on Finland. Secretary of State Cordell Hull says the US has been approached by unnamed Latin states seeking support for such a declaration.
Finnish planes today bombed the Estonian port of Paldowski, recently leased by the Soviet Union for a naval base. Unconfirmed reports claim that sixty Russian planes were destroyed in an incendiary-bomb attack on Murmansk, believed to be the location of the home field for Soviet planes that have recently attacked Finnish targets.
Sweden is mobilizing about 40,000 troops, including artillerymen, engineers, and commissary detachments, in response to the current unrest in the Baltic region. The mobilization orders refer for the first time to specific "wartime service" as opposed to purely defensive duty.
A Brooklyn Appellate Court today ordered the release of five men serving time in Sing Sing for raping a young British scientist in Queens a year ago. The five Queens residents were convicted last December on rape charges stemming from an assault on Miss Eileen Sutton, who is employed at the Carnegie Institute in Cold Spring Harbor, in a shanty near the Long Island Railroad station in Jamacia. The Appellate Court threw out the convictions, with the majority opinion claiming inconsistencies in Miss Sutton's story, and argued that the attack occurred in a "well lighted area," and that Miss Sutton "did not call for aid." One member of the Court dissented. The five men ordered released have long criminal records. (You can read a full account of what happened on December 4th 1938 here. If it doesn't make you very angry, I don't know what else to say.)
The trial of a 31-year-old man accused of murdering a Williamsburg grocer in the course of a holdup began today following the completion of jury selection. The defendant, Edward J. Lyons, known as "Chicago Eddie," is accused of shooting 52-year-old Meyer Grubstein at the victim's grocery store at 453 Graham Avenue on September 17, 1938. Two Queens youths, 18-year-olds Anthony Lanza and Dominick Petrizzio, also face charges in the shooting, and will go on trial at a future date.
Great Britian has taken no public stand on the Soviet-Finnish conflict, but is expected to do so as the League of Nations considers the matter in Geneva. It is anticipated that Russia will be told to resign from the League or face expulsion.
Maurice Evans is a "brisk" Hamlet in a new production at the 44th Street Theatre. Arthur Pollock praises his "fluent and fruity" performance in the title role, which is scheduled to run for five weeks only.
"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 Eagle editorialist praises the Dodgers for signing Lippy Leo Durocher for another year as manager. "If ever a manager deserved a big raise, he did!"
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."
With the Hot Stove at full blaze in Cincinnati this week, it appears that Joe Medwick is positively off the table. So concludes Tommy Holmes in analyzing the situation at the Winter Meetings, where Larry MacPhail is now reported to be focusing his full attention on prying Don Padgett away from the Cardinals. The Dodger president is also pushing the Boston Bees to get down to brass tacks in talks for a trade that could bring catcher Al Lopez and outfielder Max West to Ebbets Field, with $55,000 cash, catcher Babe Phelps, and an assortment of other players offered in exchange -- but no deal has been struck yet. Manager Leo Durocher, meanwhile, has his eyes on Cincinnati catcher Ernie Lombardi, even though the lumbering Italian, goat of the recent World Series, is now considered unlikely to be moved by the Reds.
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.
The jeweler shows up to look over the Bungles' diamond cache -- and Homer sticks his face thru the hole in the floor to demand his cut of the money. George, please, just take ten minutes and hammer a board up over that hole.
Leona looks like she's about to take a poke at Mary there. Watch it, kiddo, she might look like a sweet old lady, but she used to live on the street, and I bet she's got a shank up the sleeve of that dress.
Ah, John Barrymore Dook. We hardly knew ye.
The United States is expected to join with Latin American nations in a Pan-American condemnation of the Soviet attack on Finland. Secretary of State Cordell Hull says the US has been approached by unnamed Latin states seeking support for such a declaration.
Finnish planes today bombed the Estonian port of Paldowski, recently leased by the Soviet Union for a naval base. Unconfirmed reports claim that sixty Russian planes were destroyed in an incendiary-bomb attack on Murmansk, believed to be the location of the home field for Soviet planes that have recently attacked Finnish targets.
Sweden is mobilizing about 40,000 troops, including artillerymen, engineers, and commissary detachments, in response to the current unrest in the Baltic region. The mobilization orders refer for the first time to specific "wartime service" as opposed to purely defensive duty.
A Brooklyn Appellate Court today ordered the release of five men serving time in Sing Sing for raping a young British scientist in Queens a year ago. The five Queens residents were convicted last December on rape charges stemming from an assault on Miss Eileen Sutton, who is employed at the Carnegie Institute in Cold Spring Harbor, in a shanty near the Long Island Railroad station in Jamacia. The Appellate Court threw out the convictions, with the majority opinion claiming inconsistencies in Miss Sutton's story, and argued that the attack occurred in a "well lighted area," and that Miss Sutton "did not call for aid." One member of the Court dissented. The five men ordered released have long criminal records. (You can read a full account of what happened on December 4th 1938 here. If it doesn't make you very angry, I don't know what else to say.)
The trial of a 31-year-old man accused of murdering a Williamsburg grocer in the course of a holdup began today following the completion of jury selection. The defendant, Edward J. Lyons, known as "Chicago Eddie," is accused of shooting 52-year-old Meyer Grubstein at the victim's grocery store at 453 Graham Avenue on September 17, 1938. Two Queens youths, 18-year-olds Anthony Lanza and Dominick Petrizzio, also face charges in the shooting, and will go on trial at a future date.
Great Britian has taken no public stand on the Soviet-Finnish conflict, but is expected to do so as the League of Nations considers the matter in Geneva. It is anticipated that Russia will be told to resign from the League or face expulsion.
Maurice Evans is a "brisk" Hamlet in a new production at the 44th Street Theatre. Arthur Pollock praises his "fluent and fruity" performance in the title role, which is scheduled to run for five weeks only.
"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 Eagle editorialist praises the Dodgers for signing Lippy Leo Durocher for another year as manager. "If ever a manager deserved a big raise, he did!"
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."
With the Hot Stove at full blaze in Cincinnati this week, it appears that Joe Medwick is positively off the table. So concludes Tommy Holmes in analyzing the situation at the Winter Meetings, where Larry MacPhail is now reported to be focusing his full attention on prying Don Padgett away from the Cardinals. The Dodger president is also pushing the Boston Bees to get down to brass tacks in talks for a trade that could bring catcher Al Lopez and outfielder Max West to Ebbets Field, with $55,000 cash, catcher Babe Phelps, and an assortment of other players offered in exchange -- but no deal has been struck yet. Manager Leo Durocher, meanwhile, has his eyes on Cincinnati catcher Ernie Lombardi, even though the lumbering Italian, goat of the recent World Series, is now considered unlikely to be moved by the Reds.
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.
The jeweler shows up to look over the Bungles' diamond cache -- and Homer sticks his face thru the hole in the floor to demand his cut of the money. George, please, just take ten minutes and hammer a board up over that hole.
Leona looks like she's about to take a poke at Mary there. Watch it, kiddo, she might look like a sweet old lady, but she used to live on the street, and I bet she's got a shank up the sleeve of that dress.
Ah, John Barrymore Dook. We hardly knew ye.
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It doesn't happen often, but boy did this one live up to the hype - it was an immediate hit.
⇩ I'll go see this one with you Lizzie (never caught it on TCM or anywhere else).
You can see the antecedents of "Saturday Night Live" in the famous Radio Rogues' careers.
As you say Lizzie, "ah, a gentler time."
And in 1967, the Rolling Stones were told by Ed Sullivan to change the word "night" to "time" in the song "Let's Spend the Night Together." At 1:20 in, you can see what Mick thought about this:
https://www.billboard.com/articles/...d-sullivan-censored-lets-spend-night-together
In a separate Sullivan Broadcast, Jim Morrison was supposed to alter the lyrics to "Light My Fire," but didn't. Ed was not pleased.
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Leona looks like she's about to take a poke at Mary there. Watch it, kiddo, she might look like a sweet old lady, but she used to live on the street, and I bet she's got a shank up the sleeve of that dress.....
Nice touch, "The swellest girl I ever met -" that will fire Leona up. But I'm with you, my money's on Mary in a brawl.
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Too bad Frankie Germano wasn't a Giants fan.
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LizzieMaine
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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.
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Yup, the real beauty of the picture is the ump swinging up from the ground. No turn the other cheek stuff going on here.
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The Daily News Building - a real Superman building IMO - is just one of NYC's many storied skyscrapers. While no longer the home of the paper, it was in '39 when Lizzie references it. Yesterday, I walked by it and my girlfriend snapped the Christmas lobby pic you see below the two internet pics - so, good news, it still looks as good as ever.
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Wrong time period, but the photo reminded me of a picture from my youth, which has thankfully been preserved in the ether. It was March 1972 and the New Haven Arena (perhaps most famous for the Doors concert where Jim Morrison was arrested, leading to the lyric, "blood on the streets in the town of New Haven") was being torn down, leaving local favorite Eastern Hockey League team the New Haven Blades homeless. There would be no place allowed for them in the replacement New Haven Coliseum (itself now just a memory), and this was their final game, against arch rival Syracuse. With nothing to lose, the game was a melee from beginning to end, and the newspaper photo shows New Haven goalie Jim Armstrong perched atop linesman Gordie Heagle (a Syracuse resident) after seeing Heagle take a swing at his teammate.
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Meanwhile, in the Daily News, "Terry and the Pirates" has a very tense story going where Pat Ryan and April Kane are hiding out from "the Invaders"(the Japanese Army by any other name) with an old enemy of Pat's named Captain Blaze. Pat and April figure out that the Cap'n is running an opium smuggling operation -- and Blaze, a man of inflamed passions, responds by....
...challenging Pat to a game of checkers.
And as for poor Dick Tracy, well, he just can't catch a break...
Dress shoes with no socks? How gauche.
...challenging Pat to a game of checkers.
And as for poor Dick Tracy, well, he just can't catch a break...
Dress shoes with no socks? How gauche.
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⇧ As you've said, it's gloves-off in the funny pages of the '30s.
The movies were so silly to abide by a code that just reduced their relevance.
The movies were so silly to abide by a code that just reduced their relevance.
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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...
You never saw Betty or Veronica dressed like that in Riverdale.
You never saw Betty or Veronica dressed like that in Riverdale.
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She's dressed more like Harlow in a pre-code.
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Fifty Italian Air Force planes are on the way to Finland to bolster the Finnish air attack on Russian positions. The announcement from Rome comes as Finland informs the Italians that a massed Soviet army of 700,000 has begun a new offensive.
Meanwhile, the Soviet press today contains admonitions to Rumania and Turkey to negotiate mutual-assistance pacts with Moscow patterned after those negotiated with the Baltic states, and the pact vainly proposed to Finland before the start of current hostilities. The Rumanian government, unstable after the assassination of the premier by a pro-Nazi faction, has expressed little interest in talks with the Soviets, while Turkey concluded an agreement with Britain and France after negotiations with Moscow collapsed over Soviet demands that the Dardanelles be closed to warships.
A secretary to the German Consul in Manhattan was found dead in his home in Flatbush this morning, an apparent murder victim. 40-year-old Walter Engelberg had not been seen at his office for two days, and was discovered this morning with his skull crushed in, in a second-floor bedroom at his home 1280 E. 5th street in the Parkville section. The walls, floor, and bed were spattered in blood, and every light in the house was turned on. Police are seeking the man with whom Engelberg had shared the house since moving in last August. Neighbors report "frequent gatherings of men" at the house, and it is reported that Engelberg had been questioned by G-Men at least once about activities at the house and "became indignant" at the line of questioning. Engelberg, a member of the Nazi Party, had been in the United States for a year, the first four months spent in Chicago before he was transferred to the New York Consulate.
Five Nazi submarines have been sunk in the past week, according to First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, who adds that "German submarines are being sunk faster than Germany can build them."
President Roosevelt today conferred with the heads of the Federal Loan Association and the American Red Cross, in discussions expected to yield plans to provide aid to the civilian population of Finland. While no arrangements have yet been announced, it is expected they will focus on provisions for food and clothing shipments from the US.
The United States Ambassador to the Court of St. James doesn't believe the US will enter the war. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy met reporters today after arriving by air aboard the Dixie Clipper from Lisbon. He is en route to a White House conference where he will provide the President with a full briefing on the European situation.
A man collapsed and died this morning at the corner of Johnson and Adams Streets after mumbling to bystanders that he had just been robbed and beaten. Police have tentatively identified the man as Charles Moybed, address unknown, and a homicide investigation is underway.
A Long Island poet who wrote lyrically of the beauty of Ireland despite never having been out of New York reemerged today after sixteen years in seclusion to declare that he is on a new mission on behalf of Jesus Christ. Francis Carlin, a former Macy's floorwalker who built impressive literary credentials with his poetry before his withdrawal from the public, told reporters that he will reveal his message "only to the churches" in due time, but he did state that he discovered the "key" to Biblical mysteries three years ago in an advertisement he spotted while riding the subway.
Hollywood comedian Joe E. Brown is in critical condition after a auto accident in which his station wagon was sideswiped by another car, pushed off the road, rolled end over end for nearly 300 feet, and down a 30-foot embankment. The accident occured directly in front of the home of child star Jane Withers, whose mother witnessed the entire crash. The driver of the second car was not hurt. Brown was "traveling at high speed" at the time of the collision.
Fritz Kuhn is now Convict Number 97362 at Sing Sing Prison, and is being held in isolation to avoid threats of violence against his person by Jewish and Polish prisoners. Kuhn, head of the German American Bund convicted on forgery and grand larceny charges, arrived at the prison before noon and was immediately processed. He told the prison clerk his health was fine, except that he was feeling "a little upset, that's all."
A New Jersey law restricting the size and placement of price signs at gasoline stations has been ruled unconstitutional. The law had banned price signs larger than 8 inches by 10 inches, and prohibited placement of such signs anywhere but on the face of the pumps. The law had been intended to prevent gasoline price wars.
Insane trunk murderer Winnie Ruth Judd has escaped again from an asylum in Phoenix, Arizona, and authorities believe she cannot survive more than 24 hours in the open. The 34-year-old "tiger woman" has an arrested case of tuberculosis, and walked away from the asylum Sunday night, six weeks after being returned to the asylum after her first escape.
Starving Ohioans are reported "scavenging for food" after cuts in relief money left tens of thousands without recourse. Mayor LaGuardia today denounced Ohio Governor John W. Bricker for his austerity policy and was in turn denounced by Bricker, who retored that "LaGuardia was not elected Governor of Ohio. He has plenty to do in New York, and when we need him we will send for him."
LOESER'S OWN FRUIT CAKE! FILLED WITH CHOICE FRUITS AND NUTS! PACKED IN A GAY TIN! A LUXURY CAKE WITH AN ECONOMY PRICE! $1 at LOESER"S!
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."
All Protestant churches in Brooklyn will receive a resolution condemning the Christian Front as anti-Semitic and Fascist, following the adoption of that document as an official position of the Brooklyn Church and Mission Federation. Several organizations known to be affiliated with the Father Coughlin-led Front were also named in the resolution, and all, in the words of the resolution, have as their purpose "the extermination of the Jews" and the setting up of a Fascist government in the United States.
The Soviet Union may be out for the 1940 World's Fair, but Franco Spain may be in. Fair president Grover Whalen is reported to be negotiating with Gen. Francisco Franco for a Spanish exhibit at the Fair next season, and will confer with the Spanish leader in Madrid tomorrow.
The new Brooklyn Public Library is "most beautiful and appealing," according to Mayor LaGuardia, who inspected the building with Borough President Ingersoll today. Library officials say the Mayor's suggestion that the library's employee cafeteria be opened to the public will be adopted. The Library project began in 1899, and the Mayor calls its successful completion after forty years "just one of the ruins we found and reconstructed."
Tomorrow at the RKO Albee, see Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, and Wendy Barrie in "Daytime Wife," with second feature "Too Busy To Work," another episode in the lives of the Jones Family.
Now at the Patio, it's "Allegheny Uprising" and "Fast and Furious."
Bob Crosby brings his brand of Dixieland swing to the Flatbush Theatre, heading a new vaudeville bill opening tomorrow with the feature picture "Stunt Pilot."
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!")
First trade of the Winter Meetings sends first baseman Les Scarella of the Reds to the Bees for pitcher Jim Turner. No action yet on the Dodger front. Joe Medwick is still a Cardinal, and so is Don Padgett.
The Minor Leagues are ready to adopt a plan that would prohibit any major league club from shifting its franchise to any city hosting a Class AA minor league team without paying "reasonable compensation" for the territory. The rule would replace the current regulation setting a flat rate of $5000 for such compensation. The definition of "reasonable" is likely to translate into such a large sum as to render such relocations impossible.
The Dodgers have been fined again by Commissioner K. M. Landis for contract irregularities. The club will pay $125 a month for each month of the 1938 season after the Commissioner ruled that the Dodgers had violated the rights of minor leaguer Bernard Perlman by assigning him to a lower classification and cutting his pay accordingly. The amount collected in the fine will be paid to Perlman.
Charlie McCarthy will be performing in reduced circumstances after the first of the year, when the Chase & Sanborn Hour, Sunday night NBC feature, is cut from 60 to 30 minutes. Don Ameche and Dorothy Lamour will leave the program at that time, but Charlie and Edgar Bergen, vocalist Donald Dickson, and Robert Armbruster's orchestra will remain, along with weekly guest stars.
Homer from Upstairs barges in on the Bungles while the negotiations for the sale of the diamonds continue. "What crust!" sputters poor George, who apparently never heard of a lock.
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.
Maybe Leona should call down the page and see if Dan rents him out.
Meanwhile, the Soviet press today contains admonitions to Rumania and Turkey to negotiate mutual-assistance pacts with Moscow patterned after those negotiated with the Baltic states, and the pact vainly proposed to Finland before the start of current hostilities. The Rumanian government, unstable after the assassination of the premier by a pro-Nazi faction, has expressed little interest in talks with the Soviets, while Turkey concluded an agreement with Britain and France after negotiations with Moscow collapsed over Soviet demands that the Dardanelles be closed to warships.
A secretary to the German Consul in Manhattan was found dead in his home in Flatbush this morning, an apparent murder victim. 40-year-old Walter Engelberg had not been seen at his office for two days, and was discovered this morning with his skull crushed in, in a second-floor bedroom at his home 1280 E. 5th street in the Parkville section. The walls, floor, and bed were spattered in blood, and every light in the house was turned on. Police are seeking the man with whom Engelberg had shared the house since moving in last August. Neighbors report "frequent gatherings of men" at the house, and it is reported that Engelberg had been questioned by G-Men at least once about activities at the house and "became indignant" at the line of questioning. Engelberg, a member of the Nazi Party, had been in the United States for a year, the first four months spent in Chicago before he was transferred to the New York Consulate.
Five Nazi submarines have been sunk in the past week, according to First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, who adds that "German submarines are being sunk faster than Germany can build them."
President Roosevelt today conferred with the heads of the Federal Loan Association and the American Red Cross, in discussions expected to yield plans to provide aid to the civilian population of Finland. While no arrangements have yet been announced, it is expected they will focus on provisions for food and clothing shipments from the US.
The United States Ambassador to the Court of St. James doesn't believe the US will enter the war. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy met reporters today after arriving by air aboard the Dixie Clipper from Lisbon. He is en route to a White House conference where he will provide the President with a full briefing on the European situation.
A man collapsed and died this morning at the corner of Johnson and Adams Streets after mumbling to bystanders that he had just been robbed and beaten. Police have tentatively identified the man as Charles Moybed, address unknown, and a homicide investigation is underway.
A Long Island poet who wrote lyrically of the beauty of Ireland despite never having been out of New York reemerged today after sixteen years in seclusion to declare that he is on a new mission on behalf of Jesus Christ. Francis Carlin, a former Macy's floorwalker who built impressive literary credentials with his poetry before his withdrawal from the public, told reporters that he will reveal his message "only to the churches" in due time, but he did state that he discovered the "key" to Biblical mysteries three years ago in an advertisement he spotted while riding the subway.
Hollywood comedian Joe E. Brown is in critical condition after a auto accident in which his station wagon was sideswiped by another car, pushed off the road, rolled end over end for nearly 300 feet, and down a 30-foot embankment. The accident occured directly in front of the home of child star Jane Withers, whose mother witnessed the entire crash. The driver of the second car was not hurt. Brown was "traveling at high speed" at the time of the collision.
Fritz Kuhn is now Convict Number 97362 at Sing Sing Prison, and is being held in isolation to avoid threats of violence against his person by Jewish and Polish prisoners. Kuhn, head of the German American Bund convicted on forgery and grand larceny charges, arrived at the prison before noon and was immediately processed. He told the prison clerk his health was fine, except that he was feeling "a little upset, that's all."
A New Jersey law restricting the size and placement of price signs at gasoline stations has been ruled unconstitutional. The law had banned price signs larger than 8 inches by 10 inches, and prohibited placement of such signs anywhere but on the face of the pumps. The law had been intended to prevent gasoline price wars.
Insane trunk murderer Winnie Ruth Judd has escaped again from an asylum in Phoenix, Arizona, and authorities believe she cannot survive more than 24 hours in the open. The 34-year-old "tiger woman" has an arrested case of tuberculosis, and walked away from the asylum Sunday night, six weeks after being returned to the asylum after her first escape.
Starving Ohioans are reported "scavenging for food" after cuts in relief money left tens of thousands without recourse. Mayor LaGuardia today denounced Ohio Governor John W. Bricker for his austerity policy and was in turn denounced by Bricker, who retored that "LaGuardia was not elected Governor of Ohio. He has plenty to do in New York, and when we need him we will send for him."
LOESER'S OWN FRUIT CAKE! FILLED WITH CHOICE FRUITS AND NUTS! PACKED IN A GAY TIN! A LUXURY CAKE WITH AN ECONOMY PRICE! $1 at LOESER"S!
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."
All Protestant churches in Brooklyn will receive a resolution condemning the Christian Front as anti-Semitic and Fascist, following the adoption of that document as an official position of the Brooklyn Church and Mission Federation. Several organizations known to be affiliated with the Father Coughlin-led Front were also named in the resolution, and all, in the words of the resolution, have as their purpose "the extermination of the Jews" and the setting up of a Fascist government in the United States.
The Soviet Union may be out for the 1940 World's Fair, but Franco Spain may be in. Fair president Grover Whalen is reported to be negotiating with Gen. Francisco Franco for a Spanish exhibit at the Fair next season, and will confer with the Spanish leader in Madrid tomorrow.
The new Brooklyn Public Library is "most beautiful and appealing," according to Mayor LaGuardia, who inspected the building with Borough President Ingersoll today. Library officials say the Mayor's suggestion that the library's employee cafeteria be opened to the public will be adopted. The Library project began in 1899, and the Mayor calls its successful completion after forty years "just one of the ruins we found and reconstructed."
Tomorrow at the RKO Albee, see Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, and Wendy Barrie in "Daytime Wife," with second feature "Too Busy To Work," another episode in the lives of the Jones Family.
Now at the Patio, it's "Allegheny Uprising" and "Fast and Furious."
Bob Crosby brings his brand of Dixieland swing to the Flatbush Theatre, heading a new vaudeville bill opening tomorrow with the feature picture "Stunt Pilot."
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!")
First trade of the Winter Meetings sends first baseman Les Scarella of the Reds to the Bees for pitcher Jim Turner. No action yet on the Dodger front. Joe Medwick is still a Cardinal, and so is Don Padgett.
The Minor Leagues are ready to adopt a plan that would prohibit any major league club from shifting its franchise to any city hosting a Class AA minor league team without paying "reasonable compensation" for the territory. The rule would replace the current regulation setting a flat rate of $5000 for such compensation. The definition of "reasonable" is likely to translate into such a large sum as to render such relocations impossible.
The Dodgers have been fined again by Commissioner K. M. Landis for contract irregularities. The club will pay $125 a month for each month of the 1938 season after the Commissioner ruled that the Dodgers had violated the rights of minor leaguer Bernard Perlman by assigning him to a lower classification and cutting his pay accordingly. The amount collected in the fine will be paid to Perlman.
Charlie McCarthy will be performing in reduced circumstances after the first of the year, when the Chase & Sanborn Hour, Sunday night NBC feature, is cut from 60 to 30 minutes. Don Ameche and Dorothy Lamour will leave the program at that time, but Charlie and Edgar Bergen, vocalist Donald Dickson, and Robert Armbruster's orchestra will remain, along with weekly guest stars.
Homer from Upstairs barges in on the Bungles while the negotiations for the sale of the diamonds continue. "What crust!" sputters poor George, who apparently never heard of a lock.
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.
Maybe Leona should call down the page and see if Dan rents him out.
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It's not as if he was dating Carole Lombard.
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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.
Sue probably feels right now like Dorothy did when she was kicking on the storm cellar door to be let in and the door didn't open.
And I'm guessing Leona (nice close up, Lizzie) won't need to rent a dog to exact her revenge.
N.B., I think Sue looks better in glasses even though there was a big anti-glasses-on-girls bias in the Era.
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I was momentarily excited to imagine what a 1939 version of Fast and Furious might look like…
Same!
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I don't understand how Ted thinks she's going to "see a lot of him" without them. There are contact lenses in 1939, but not for country cousins of spoiled heiresses.
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