Word: ribbons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, Helen Morgan ran a dizzy gamut: from a Chicago ribbon counter (Marshall Field & Co.) to a Broadway triumph (Show Boat). The songs she sang as the half-caste Julie in that show never grew stale though she sang them often. Even in the murkiest nightery, no audience was too tough for her to soften with Jerome Kern's Bill and Can't Help Lovin...
Helen Morgan's path from ribbon counter to Broadway included detours into a biscuit factory, nursing, posing for step-in ads. While modeling in Montreal, she was chosen Miss Mount Royal, whisked to New York City by an enterprising press agent, where she was greeted by burbling Mayor Hylan as a "Canadian beauty." Promptly signed up by Billy Rose as singer for a small hotspot, she couldn't make herself heard or seen until the late, great Ring Lardner boosted her to the top of a piano. After that, she always sat on one to sing her husky...
...good Lord's hands, Joe Louis has earned close to $2,000,000 in purses (split 50-50 with his managers after all training expenses have been paid). He owns three apartment houses in Chicago, blue-ribbon saddle horses, a 477-acre farm 20 miles outside Detroit. Joe has bought himself an annuity which should bring him $11,000 a year, starting in 1944. He has put his baby sister Veunice through Howard University, supports 27 assorted kinfolk in Detroit alone. The good Lord has also seen to it that Joe's head be sculptured for posterity, like...
...minutes Admiral Nomura worked his blandishments on the President, while Secretary of State Cordell Hull fingered his pince-nez ribbon. When the Admiral emerged, he flashed a smile at reporters, twirled a grey fedora in his brown hands. Then he stepped into his limousine...
...Little Foxes (Samuel Goldwyn; RKO Radio) is a blue-ribbon adaptation of Playwright Lillian Hellman's and Producer Herman Shumlin's bitter Broadway drama of a rapacious Southern family hell-bent for power and money at the turn of the century. If it consists of too much photographed talk, too little movement, that is Hollywood's error for trying to film stage plays instead of designing stories for the camera's rangier talents...