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...Yoelson (Al Jolson), mammy-singer; by Walter Winchell, gossip colyumist; for $500,000, the extent to which Colyumist Winchell said he was damaged when he was struck and felled last month in Hollywood's Legion Stadium by Singer Yoelson, disturbed over reports that Winchell's new scenario (Broadway Through a Keyhole) was discreditable to his wife, Ruby Keeler (TIME, July...
...fist and down went Winchell. Smack went Jolson's other fist and down went Wrinchell again. After other spectators, including a woman who wielded her sharp-heeled slipper, had driven Jolson off, word buzzed through the excited audience that Ruby Keeler was upset because Winchell's new scenario, Broadway Through a Keyhole, was supposedly based on her career. (She used to tap-dance in the night club of the late Larry Fay, Manhattan gangster slain last winter.) Post-bellum comment...
Miss Hawkins sent the story to the two most blatant advertisers, Daniel O'Malley Co. Inc. of Manhattan, and Universal Scenario Co. of Hollywood. Universal thought the tale "admirably suited to talking picture presentation," offered to print a 500-word synopsis of it in its Scenario Bulletin Review, copyright it, submit it "personally to those producers whose current production demands call for this particular type of story"-all for $10. Daniel O'Malley Co. Inc. (proprietor: Daniel S. Margalies) was equally enthusiastic, would perform approximately the same service...
Died. Earl Derr Biggers, 48, humorist, novelist, playwright, scenario-writer; of heart failure; in Pasadena. His first novel, Seven Keys To Baldpate, was his most famed. His best known fictional character: Charlie Chan, Chinese detective and aphorist...
Died, Wilson Mizner, 56, Klondike prospector, playwright, wit, manager of Boxer Stanley Ketchel, gambler, Florida land boomer (with his Architect Brother Addison), scenario writer; of a heart attack after six months' illness; in Los Angeles. To each of two nieces he willed $1 in cash, left the rest of his estate to "my friend, Florence Atkinson of Los Angeles," onetime cinemactress...