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Snafu (by Louis Solomon and Harold Buchman; produced by George Abbott) is kid stuff that will flourish at the box office though it often falters on the stage. Telling of a 15-year-old war hero who is shipped home from the Pacific when his age is discovered, Snafu finds its fun in Ronald's thorny return to civilian life...
...Silver Star for service in World War I, Compton had joined the Seabees in September 1942, became a chief electrician's mate. In Bermuda, on his first assignment, he came under command of an ensign with whom he did not get along. Complained Compton: "He was an overbearing kid of about 26 or 27, and you know it's pretty hard on older men who have been in their trade 15 or 20 years to have a youngster telling them what's what...
...Doubt), and her husband, Niven Busch, Hollywood writer-producer (In Old Chicago, The Westerner), were sued for $15,000 by their cook, who charged that Busch's eleven-year-old son (by a previous marriage) had shot him in the arm because his stepmother "requested the kid to take a pot shot...
...Listen, Kid!" Irma has been rattling around in Fanny Brice's brain ever since she was Fanny Borach of Forsyth Street, daughter of a saloonkeeper. She had risen to singing dialect songs in the Columbia Burlesque when Florenz Ziegfeld, who knew a good thing, hired her for his Follies. Once, asked about her career, she roared...
...Listen, kid! I've done everything in the theater except marry a property man. I've been a soubrette in burlesque and I've accompanied stereopticon slides. I've acted for Belasco and I've laid 'em out in rows at the Palace. I've doubled as an alligator; I've worked for the Shuberts; and I've been joined to Billy Rose in the holy bonds. I've painted the house boards and I've sold tickets and I've been fired by George M. Cohan...