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Died. John Westcott ("Fred Karno"), 75, veteran English music-hall comic and producer; in Parkstone, England. In 1906 he hired an unknown named Charles Chaplin, made him into a music-hall star, took him to the U.S. in 1913, lost him to Mack Sennett...
...Connie Mack, 78-year-old manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, whose formal schooling stopped in high school, was made a Doctor of Physical Education by Pennsylvania Military College...
...Gone also, under Will Hays edict, is the spice which helped the play to an eight-year run on Broadway. What appears on the screen, shrouding fine performances by Charlie Grapewin and Gene Tierney as Jeeter and Ellie May, is a comical but altogether slapstick movie in the best Mack Sennet tradition...
...pitcher had President Roosevelt watched the Senators come through for him. But in their hometown opener at Yankee Stadium, with Mayor LaGuardia pitching the first ball, the Yankees looked like bushers instead of co-favorites (with the Cleveland Indians) to win the American League pennant this year. Against Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics, a 100-to-1 shot in pre-season betting, they were drubbed...
Whiteman let him go because he was lazy, and he immediately landed a better job at Los Angeles' Cocoanut Grove. The Grove fired him for disappearing on long weekends to Palm Springs and Agua Caliente, and Mack Sennett hired him to act in some movie shorts. Prohibition booze gave him laryngitis which muffled his voice to a whisper, and he received a $3,000-a-week radio contract. Eddie Lang, his best friend and accompanist, died, and Bing wound up making pictures for Paramount. He seemed listless, but his income always increased...