Word: monologist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Noel Coward once told Mrs. Ethel Harriman Russell, daughter of Washington's famed Mrs. J. Borden ("Daisy") Harriman: "You're no actress; you're a monologist. Why don't you write a play?" Last week, after a trial period, Mrs. Russell signed a regular contract as scenarist with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, planned to take her two children to Hollywood...
Author Sale, 36, vaudeville monologist (opens next week in Hello Paris, at Newark, N. J.), found "The Specialist" one of his best acts, wrote it down hoping to sell a few books to friends (TIME, Aug. 26, 1929). When not trouping he lives in Scarsdale, N. Y., with his three daughters. Test copies of the new Ex-Lax campaign included the straw-munching Specialist's accounts of a rural traffic policeman who took Ex-Lax, be- came healthy, smiled so much he was made an official; the yarn of a dentist who did no business, gave Ex-Lax away, made...