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Holtz: Say, I was in show business. I was a Shakespearean actor...
Married. Evelyn Lave, 34, English actress (Bitter Sweet), divorced wife of English Comedian Sonnie Hale; and Frank Lawton, 30, English actor (Cavalcade, One More River) ; at Yuma, Ariz...
Successive generations of historians, poets and playwrights have expanded the Washington legend, tried to figure out for themselves what manner of man this liberator was. In Manhattan this week a fine dramatic society, a fine playwright and a fine actor combine to render a new portrait of the Father of His Country. The Theatre Guild presents Maxwell Anderson's Valley Forge, with Philip Merivale as Washington...
...protrudes. Eyes slanting with complicated puckers beneath, giving air of speculation rather than dissipation. Form lumbering, sits carelessly in comfort with wrinkled shoulders. Bright, direct look, the frank, clear gaze of craft. Clever as hell but so innocent. Tactful, charming, ingratiating. Urbane grin, fine stage presence. A grand old actor...
Before he became a vaudeville actor, Joe Penner had been a choir boy, magazine salesman, Ford filing clerk, property man for an act called "Rex the Mind Reader." He became an actor in 1923 when the comedian in the preceding skit deserted his show. Now married to a onetime chorus girl named Eleanor May Vogt, he has an Episcopal minister named Henry Scott Rubel write his songs. Nervous, shy and solemn in private life, he plays the violin, likes to make things with tools, hopes some day to be a dramatic writer...