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...managers seem to agree. They have scheduled only a few non-controversial speeches for him upon his arrival in the U.S., and plan to closet him in Denver until the Convention...
Caught In the Closet. Charles Laughton's love of the theater took a quarter-century to find its outlet. He was born in 1899 in the Victoria Hotel in Scarborough, a resort town on the east coast of England. As the eldest of the three sons of hotel-owning Robert and Elizabeth Laughton, he was supposed to follow in their footsteps. But Charles showed his inclination early. He played endlessly with a toy puppet show until his brother Tom, who had built a guillotine out of a camera shutter, beheaded the marionettes. Laughton's next theatrical disaster came...
Redfield led the police to a second-floor bedroom closet and announced that a 400-lb. safe was gone. In it, said Redfield, were $250,000 in cash, about $100,000 worth of jewelry and $2,000,000 in negotiable securities. Still in the closet was a battered suitcase that the thieves had missed. While the cops' eyes popped, Redfield opened it and riffled through another $1,000,000 worth of securities. "Guess it's all there," he said...
...Weinberg and Irving Hoffman. Weiner is the columnist's "lobbyist, contact-man, straight-man-about-town"; Hoffman is a columnist for the Hollywood Reporter; Weinberg was Singer Josephine Baker's drum beater until the Stork Club incident, then Weinberg hastily dropped her. Also chased from the Winchell closet was another figure that few other ghosts even knew about: Herman Klurfeld, 35, who sticks close to his Long Island home and is paid a reported $250 a week by Winchell for writing his "schmaltz" columns, such as "Man Playing with Words" ("Central Park: This is an island of repose...
...sued for the privilege of using the house, too. In the first place, he said, he heard that Eleanor had barricaded the front door with his $75,000 Rembrandt, had flung a Franz Hals portrait and a Turner landscape into a damp basement liquor closet, along with his valuable collection of antique silver by Paul Storr, silversmith to George III. Things like these needed a man's protection. Rose said he would also like to pick up some of his winter coats and suits, and furthermore he needed the house in order to entertain properly. His Ziegfeld Theater apartment...