Word: cochrane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With an expression of deep concern on his plump face, Charles B. Cochran of London paced the floor of a living room full of reporters in a Manhattan hotel last week. In his long career of managing magicians, wrestlers, promoting rollerskating, staging Christmas pantomimes, producing drawing-room dramas and musical extravaganzas, Mr. Cochran had never before exhibited such diffidence in dealing with the Press. Pointing solemnly to a chair, he said in a hushed voice: "Boys, this is where she is going to sit. Now please don't ask her questions of an embarrassing nature...
Four days later she was to appear in Margaret Kennedy's Escape Me Never!, the play in which Actress Bergner first spoke English and in which she took critical London by storm last year. To promote her Manhattan debut, Producer Cochran and the Theatre Guild had dragged out every threadbare cliche known to theatrical ballyhoo. Actress Bergner was billed as a shy recluse, inordinately modest, simple, unaffected, fond of Wiener Schnitzel and dogs. "She works harder than any other member of the company," said one account. "She is the first to arrive at the theatre, and she spends...
...England. Her father was a tailor. Her brother, Billy, was a fisticuffer who claimed the lightweight championship of Europe. At 15 Jessie Matthews left school to become a chorus girl in the London edition of Irving Berlin's Music Box Revue, has since appeared mostly in Charles B. Cochran productions. She visited the U.S. in the chorus of two Chariot Revues, appeared in Earl Carroll's Vanities, starred in Wake Up and Dream. Her present husband is John Robert Hale-Monro ("Sonnie Hale"). They were married in 1931 after Sonnie Hale was divorced by Actress Evelyn Laye...
Nebraska's Roy L. Cochran, on his way to the Governorship, was last week also on his way to Washington to consult about relief. Reserved, tall, grey, portly, he tackles his problems like the engineer that he is and his relief problem is not like that of most Governors. His State has no debt whatever; its pay-as-you-go policy has paid for all State highways and for the $10,000,000 State Capitol. Nebraska's freedom from debt is due, however, to statutory restrictions on the issue of bonds. Nebraska has had to leave her problems...
First Day. First to drop out of the race were Wesley Smith and Jacqueline Cochran, sole U. S. woman entry. They quit at Bucharest. First plane into Athens was the Douglas D. C.2 flown by Pilots J. J. Moll and Koene D. Parmentier of Royal Dutch Airlines. Their longtime service on the Amsterdam-Batavia airway (three-fourths of the MacRobertson route) gave them a decided edge over other contestants...