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...decade the Nelsons played second fiddle to various radio stars (Robert Ripley, Joe Penner, Feg Murray). Briefly, Harriet was a successful cinemactress (Follow the Fleet, New Faces). They joined Red Skelton in 1941, and when Red went into the Army, they finally got a program of their...
Plea. In The Bronx, Joseph Penner,-charged with smoking in the subway, told the judge he never smoked but a stranger had asked him to and he hated to offend him. Fine...
Died. Joe Penner (real name: Joseph Pinter), 36, Hungarian-born radio, stage and screen comic who gained fame a few years ago by his inane radiululations ("Wanna buy a duck?" "You nasty man!"); of heart disease; in Philadelphia, where week ago he had assumed the leading role in the musical show Yokel...
...made Yale-bred Rudy Vallée (real name: Hubert Pryor Vallée) radio's first big-money performer, began radio's first national song craze (I'm Just a Vagabond Lover), first exploited the radio talents of Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy, Alice Faye, Joe Penner, Frances Langford. Its popularity is still impressive, but not so impressive as that of later rival food merchandisers like Jack Benny (JellO) or Bing Crosby (Kraft Music Hall). Last week Standard Brands and Vallée announced an amicable parting of the ways next September 28, within crooning distance...
Star of Stars: Baritone Nelson Eddy, succeeding Soprano Jessica Dragonette (1938), Jack Benny (1935-37), Joe Penner (1934). Nelson Eddy has been off the air since January...