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Hollywood can forget quickly. Two days after it was over, the national election was as dated as last week's newsreel, as dull as last week's gossip. The local election was a different story. Unseated after twelve years was Los Angeles' redbaiting Republican District Attorney Buron Fitts, who has more titillating Hollywood scandal under his bonnet than a dog has fleas. With just an occasional heckle from the film colony's left wing because of his unvarying kindness to the industry's big shots, Fitts sashayed complacently through his duties without any qualms about...
Prancing into Manhattan's Loew's State theatre last fortnight went all that is left of big-time U. S. vaudeville. It was a troupe of seven energetic young cinemactors and actresses led by a columnist-Hearst's triple-threat Hollywood gossip dispenser, roly-poly Louella O. ("Lolly") Parsons. On this, her second cross-country junket, Lolly Parsons was again proving that a columnist's best business is his vaudeville, that vaudeville's best business is its columnists...
Along with the usual standbys of a fan magazine (reviews, gossip, puffs), Stage will present each month words and music of a new song, full text of a current Broadway show. November's play: The Man Who Came To Dinner. Regular contributors are Alexander Woollcott, Clare Booth, William Saroyan...
...Publisher Ince. Born Sandor Incze, a native of Cluj (restored to Hungary last month by Adolf Hitler), he started out as a law clerk, newspaper reporter, smalltime aviation promoter. In Cluj, when he was 19, Publisher Ince founded his first theatre journal: a weekly magazine of programs and gossip, Theatre News. The local stock company changed its bill each night, charged 5? for programs. Young Ince sold his sheet for 3? saved readers from 2? to 27? a week...
...jumped Montana's Senator Burt Wheeler to second his leader, and to "deplore" a story spread by another team of political gossip columnists, Drew Pearson & Bob Allen, that isolationist Senator Ernest Lundeen was being trailed by FBI agents as a Nazi sympathizer when he died two months ago in a plane crash on a hillside in Virginia. (The Senate appropriated $5,000 to investigate the crash, the story...