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...coached and whom Madame Schumann-Heink once "discovered" as a caroling Jersey cop) is something new and convincing in villainy. He looks like neither a swindling person or the unconfessed byblow of a neanderthal rake, but like the sort of hard-soft, period Irishman he is supposed to be. Julia Heron's interiors look as if people really had lived in them. The direction (by skilled Oldtimer William K. Howard), the acting, the production are fluent, alert and reciprocal...
Died. Frank Crumit, 53, Julia Sanderson's genial, longtime stage and radio teammate; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A banker's son, Crumit tried vaudeville while waiting to land an engineering job. He became Miss Sanderson's leading man in 1922, married her in 1927. Singing, ukulele-playing Crumit wrote more than 25 songs, sold more than 4,000,000 recordings...
...revised Hymnal's nearly 600 hymns (an increase of about 40) 201 are new. Some hymns have been dropped. Most of these, like Tarry With Me, O My Saviour, were on the egocentric side. The current trend is toward theocentric hymns. Two surprising deletions: Julia Ward Howe's Battle Hymn of the Republic, Tennyson's Crossing...
...Julia Marlowe, 76, romantic stage heroine of 40-odd years ago (Sothern & Marlowe), was up & about after three weeks abed recovering from injuries suffered in a fall. Refusing to admit reporters to her Manhattan hotel suite, she sent word by her maid that she wanted to "have nothing to do with the outside world...
...Echoes of his surging speech resound through Wolfe's novels. But the novelist's mother, a sinewy woman still living at the age of 83 in Asheville, N.C., was probably an even greater influence. She is a positive personality. "You told me," her son once wrote to Julia Elizabeth Wolfe, "that three great Americans had their birthday in February, and when I looked puzzled you said that you were the third." Readers may regret that Mrs. Wolfe's letters to her son are not included in this one-way correspondence, but they will appreciate her remarks...