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...Pauline, Miss Brice lapsed into baby talk. Years later Moss Hart wrote a Snooks skit for Sweet and Low, but Snooks was officially recognized when she was included in the Brice routine for the 1934 Follies. The late Dave Freedman and Phil Rapp, who still writes the Maxwell House script, collaborated on material for Snooks. A couple of years later Fanny ran through the Snooks skit as a guest of Maxwell House. Signed up as a permanent attraction on the program, Miss Brice cooed, gurgled and whined her way to a berth in radio. Now 49, she boasts: "I could...
...doing Snooks, Fanny is paid $5,000 a week. A bit moody now and restless, she is sometimes difficult to handle, gets whims like refusing to wear glasses for fear of spoiling Snooks's appearance to radio audiences, which necessitates writing her script in triple-size type. A great one for entertaining, she lives in an 18-room Beverly Hills mansion, which she has furnished ornately with French and English antiques. Among recent drop-ins have been the socially hard-to-get Aldous Huxley and Somerset Maugham. Describing the occasion, Fanny remarked, "Like jerks, we played parlor games." Most...
...field day for CBS and Mutual, which persistently got the jump on Schechter and his crew. He rates as the bluntest broadcast he ever heard James Roosevelt's defense of his business activities in reply to an attack by Alva Johnston. Excerpt from the Roosevelt script: "I have a feeling that being the President's son, some people would be calling me a crook no matter what business I had entered, providing I'd been successful." Admitting that radio is still a bit callow, Schechter is certain its newscasting is reasonably mature. Proud...
...interested in taking part in the "Follies," potential musicians, actors, and script writers, should report in the Upper Common room of the Union at 7:30 o'clock on Wednesday...
There was a problem however, that could not be solved by merely buying a good script and casting good actors. Behind this amusing play there appeared a subtle theme which had all the characteristics of intelligence--a thing that seldom happens in Hollywood. It wasn't one of those stories where boy gets girl, then gets it in the neck and lives ever after. "Philadelphia Story" was written by a man who was extremely conscious of the differences in human nature and the part that environment plays in making it different. The author may have exaggerated a bit the space...