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Morning Star (by Sylvia Regan; produced by George Kondolf) gave Yiddish Actress Molly Picon, once the gay "Mitzi of the East Side," her first English-speaking dramatic role on Broadway. It also turned her into an old woman overnight, made her a grey-haired Jewish mama in one of those sentimental family chronicles which are rigged up each season, in a different racial garb, to catch the family trade...
...Marion Jordan. By radio alias they are Fibber McGee and Molly of 79 Wistful Vista. This week they celebrate Fibber & Co.'s fifth season on the air for Johnson's Glo-Coat floor wax.* Last week they made their debut in the dramatic bigtime, playing Mama Loves Papa (a Charles Ruggles-Mary Boland movie story) on CBS's Lux Radio Theatre. They let the characterization pass, wrung the gags unmercifully, but no one minded. A year ago Fibber & Co. were metaphorically down among the acrobats in popularity. This season they were booked into a select spot...
...English officer's war bride. Invited for a visit by her grown daughter (whom she hasn't seen since infancy and who has been brought up a lady), she goes, intending to play the lady too. Daughter turns out to be a terrible prig, and since Mama can't even dress like a lady, let alone act like one, there's quite a todo...
...play being farce, Mama cuts capers instead of crying into her pillow, and the capers get more & more farcical as the situations get more & more forced. But the play doesn't end as a farce. It ends as a fairy tale-with Mama, for no possible reason, bagging a great English diplomat...
Engaged. Comedian George Jessel, 42; and Lois Andrew (Lorain Gourley), 16, who once punched Producer George White in the eye; he for the third time (wife No. 1, Florence Courtney; No. 2, Norma Talmadge); in Manhattan. Said Mama Gourley, 33: "I have no objections to early marriages. I was married at 16 myself. I've been divorced seven years." Said Papa Gourley, Los Angeles police official, by wire: "POSITIVELY FORBID YOU TO MARRY ANYONE WITHOUT MY CONSENT...