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CROONING SINGER OF RADIO BECOMES A LYRIC MOTION PICTURE HERO
GLEANINGS
AND
SCREENINGS
By Andrew R. Kelley
“Well, it’s all over unless you
had an electrical Christmas—
Charged. ‘ ‘ '
This department spent much
of the holiday racing through
“Young Man of Manhattan.” a
volume by Katharine Brush,
which' was found in the toe of
the YUle stocking. Paramount
proposes to make it into a
movie in the very near future
with Mofita Ben slated to direct.
It was written by a young
author whose first printed at
tention came through a movie
column she conducted oh the
Boston Traveler I should say
that 'her desk was adjacent to
the sports department for the
Toby McLean Miss Brush nom- f
inates as her fiction a hero is
a hard drinking, square shoot
ing, often broke, baseball scribe
who smells genuine.
Since the movies like to.vis
ualize the -sometimes glamor
ous and intense moments whicn
are often the unprinted chap
ters in the lives of many mem
bers of the Fourth Estate, I am
glad they picked this one which
bubbles with Incidents and
scenes familiar to those who
frequent the bleachers and foot
ball stadia. Damon Runyan,
GrantUnd • Rice, Westbrook
Pegler and others of eminence
in the writing of sports are
woven into the fictional back;
ground and those who know
’em and look sharp may discern
more “By Lines” of the sports
departments.
Finicky journalists may ob
ject to the sports correspondent
who gets soused and has one
of his fellow craftsmen West
ern Union his football lead'and
story. But such things have
happened and they help to
make this tale salty.
“Young Man of Manhattan”
is not as well written as Ben
Ames Williams’ newspaper yarn.
“Splendor,” but it seems to
have all the ingredients neces
sary for a colorful i talkie with
a pip of a romance to boot.
In the late afternoon I
dropped, into the well-filled
Keith Theater for my first
glimpse of Hubert Prior Vallee,
of Westbrook, Me., a small
town boy who in the space of
two years has raised his salary
from S6O a week playing a saxo
phone to $6,000 leading a jazz
band and slipping the baton
under his arm while he croons
tunes which make girlish hearts
go pitter-pattei.
The radio made Rudy Vallee
what he is today, and it will
continue to be his strongest
suit. The close-up camera dis
illusions those who would call
the reddish haired Rudy hand
some. Marshall Neilan enjoys
a reputation as a director who
can take a green banana talept
and mfke a pretty tasty screen
salad. In Rudy Vallee’s case
he must have found a pupil
who was painfully, dignified
and apparently tightened by
the unfamiliar requirements of
Hollywood genius. Watching
“Vagabond Lover,” you couldn’t ■
help thinking what a much bet
ter acting job Eddie Nugent
would have done with the lead
role. But Eddie can’t sing like
Rudy and has no exalted repu
tation. ,
Rudy can sing, no foolin’,
and they have given him some
tracker jack tunes for his first
picture. He is plugging them
hard over the radio and the
tie-up presents the perfect al
liance between the loud speaker
and the box office.
News is scarce over the holi
days but a rumor that sounds
substantial has Brooke Johns
coming to the Fox Theater soon
as a master of ceremonies.
Brooke likes to call himself a
local boy since he owns a farm
of many acres and cows at Nor
beck, a town adjacent to Rock
ville and Olney and less than
a gallon of gas away from the
D. C. line.
Mr. Johns has recently com
pleted a long engagement as
M. C. at the Stanley Theater,
Pittsburgh, and before that
bossed the stage shows in St.
Louis and Chicago.
James Leo Sullivan, who rep
resents the Columbia Typo
graphical Union in the first
night crowds and follows the
Times stock ticker as a daily
duty, became engaged over the
holiday, says an item which I
will filch from the society de
partment.
The diamond solitaire was
slipped upon the finger of Miss
Ethelka Kearney, well known
in Washington musical circles,
where she has appeared pub
licly as a soprano soloist. <
Charles Hampden, who has
an A. B. degree from -Mr.
Cochran’s stock company and
was last seen here as an or
chestra soloist at. the Earle
Theater, received a fat role for
a Christmas present. He
opened Tuesday night at the
Assembly Theater in New York,
playing the duke (lead role)
in “The Novice and the Duke,”
which is a modem version of
“Measure for Measure.”
George B. Harrington, of the
Riverside Apartments, took
time out Christmas to postcard
the editor and inquire why they
put Harpo Marx’s wig on
David Roiling and asked him
TON OF LAUGHS
IN‘SHANNONS’
FEATURE
The Shannons have come back.
Down at the Rialto Theater
James Gleason and Lucille Web
ster are enacting the roles that
they filled with such zest on the
stage some seasons ago. It
opened yesterday.
“The Shannons of Broadway
is still substantially the same. -
Once again the vaudeville team
fired from its weary small town
orbit, buys the small town hotel.
It • doesn’t pay. The pair are
saved at the last minute by all
the old hokum. Transconti
nental Aifways wants the site
for a landing field and pays
$25,000 for it in the face of the
schemes of the local Maecenas
to wrest it cheaply.*
Here, as opposite from the
stage, we have exteriors as well
as interiors. For this reason,
then, there is more of the
atmosphere of a small town—
which relieves the film of a
theatrically rural touch. On the
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other hand, some of the humor
is missing, due to the conden
sation of three acts into six
reels.
But Lucille Webster saves a
great deal of it. As the matron
ly, kindly, cynical Mrs. Shannon
she is the perfect character.
You should see her, for in
stance, as she attempts to Adapt
her two-a-day spirit to the com
munity by boredly holding a cow
in leash while Mr. Gleason
milks it. Enough of her original
comebacks are left, too. to
give the photoplay the Broad
way air that it needed.
Indeed, the film is rather
well acted. Mr. Gleason is the
same skinny “yeah man"; John
Breeden, remembered from the
high schodl saturnalia “Fox
Movietone Follies,” proved to
be one of the most likable and
engaging Juveniles of the sea
son. and Mary Philbin, reduced
from the golden regions of star
dom to being a mere'ingenue,
was appropriate.
“The Shannons of Broadway”
is not as fully pieced out as
the original play, but it is slight
ly above the average talkie in
amusement qualities—and miles
above the average talkie that
comes to the Rialto Theater.
You will get your share of
chuckles and a full quota of
hearty laughs besides.
Supplementing the main
screen attraction is a colored
novelty reel. “In Dutch,” which
makes charming trimming, a.
Sunny Jim. comedy of holiday
flavor with the “Voice of Holly
wood.” a cameo feature intro
ducing a number of the Holly
wood stars. The Rialto orches
tra in a stirring overture
rounds out.
E. B. C.
When the Feature
k Shown On Screen
RIALTO—The Gleasons in
“Shannon’s of Broadway.” At
11:50 A. M-, 1:50, 3:50, 5:50,
7:50 and 9:50 P. M. ,
R-K-O-KETTH’S—Rudy Vallee
in “The Vagabond Lover.” At
11:49 A. M, 1:50, 3:50, 5:50,
7:50 and 9:50 P. M.
PALACE—Gertrude Lawrence
in “The Battle of Paris.” At
13:05, 3:40. 5:30, 7:45 and 9:55
P. m.
METROPOLITAN—Ted Lewis
in “Is Everybody Happy?” At
11:39 a. m., 1:39. 3:59, 5:39,
7:39 and 9:40 p. m.
EARLE — Buddy Rogers in
“Half Way to Heaven.” At
10:55 a. m.. 13:35, 3:35, 4:20,
6:05, 8 and 9:55 p. m.
FOX—George Jessell in “Love,
Live and Laugh.” At 11:55
al m., 2:29. 4:44, 7:44 and
9:59 p. m.
COLUMBIA—JuIes Verne’s
“Mysterious Island,” with Lionel
Barrymore. At 11 a. m., 1:05,
3:15, 5:30, 7:30 and 9:40 p. m.
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Uni. The inference is plain
that Mr. Harrington considers
the dimpled Juvenile of the Fox
Company miscast in “Love,
Live and Laugh.” I am grate
ful for the paragraph on a day
when items are as scarce as
prewar stuff, but can only re
ply the Rollins assignment is
one of the queer things that
TH« WASHINGTON TIMES
PROGRAMS FOR NEW
WEEK IN THEATERS
NATIONAL—
“TfeueZyn’s GA oaf”
With three productions play
ing to enormous business in
New York, A. L. Erlanger and
George C. Tyler have turned
their attention to a new pro
duction which will be seen here
op December 30 at the Na
tional Theater. A farce-comedy
by Dwight Taylor, son of the
noted actress. Laurette Taylor,
it is called “Trevelyn’s Ghost.”
and as may be imagined is an
English comedy
Mr. Taylor was educated both
In England and America, and
because haunted castles are
more indigenous to England
than here, laid his story there.
It concerns the desire of a
young Englishwoman to sell the
family home, and the antipathy
of her fiance. The crick to
which she resorts to accomplish
her wish forms the nucleus
of an amusing, entertaining
comedy. The brilliant cast in
cludes Frederick Kerr, Phyllis
Povah. Percy AmeS. Patricia
Barclay. Rea Martin. Harold
de Becker. A. J. Herbert, Charles
Brown and Percival Vivian.
* * *
PALACE—
William Haines in “Navy
Blues”
Loew’s , anuary Festival. in
which ever day is a holiday,
is given a great start with the
arrival of William Haines Sat
urday at Loew’s Palace in the
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer all-talk
ing proi’.xstion, “Navy Blues.”
sh support are Anita page,
Karl Dane and J. C. Nugent.
Haines, as Kelly, whose idea of
the service is “join the Navy
and seize the girls,” is a hard
boiled gob aboard a destroyer,
who is ordered much to his dis
gust to attend a Y. M- C. A. so
cial. Thei he meets a pretty
girl who takes him to her
home. Her mother hates all
sailors, having married one. But
after var ous troubles he piar
ries the girl.
On the stage Allan Rogers
will be presented in his "Fare
well We«k” in the Loew produc
tion. “Mkcmi Nights.” featuring
Burns and Kissen. Llora Hoff
man. Horton Spurr. the Andre
De Vai foursome, the Chester
Hale Gkis and the Palace Syn
copators. Hearst Metrotone
News, Hurry Borjes and the
Palace Orchestra, short subjects
•and Cha. les Gaig® will com
plete the program.
*»* ■ ’
FOX—
“Hot for Paris”
The Fox Theater manage
ment is promising another com
edy in “Hot for Paris," com
ing Saturday. It is Victor Me-'
Laglen’s successor to “The
Cock-Eyed World,” with the
same staff: Raoul Walsh,
story and direction; Billy K.
Wells, dialogue, and William
Fox producer. McLaglen sings
for the first time on the screen
in “Hot for Paris.” The new
“side kick” replacing Edmund
Lowe for this feature* is El
Brendel, remembered in ‘Sunny
Side Up.” Fifi Dorsay, seen
recently with Will Rogers in
“They Had to See Paris,” is
again the French miss of much
temperament. McLaglen, now
a sailor, wins a lottery and
doesn’t collect, as he thinks
the donors are officers of the
law out to arrest him.
Horace Heidt and his Cali
fornians constitute the Fan
chon and Marco Idea for New
Year week program. Brusiloff
andthe Fox Orchestra will have
a special overture, and Fox
Movietone News will round out
the program. *
COLUMBIA—*
Ronald Colman tn
Condemned”
Starting Saturday? Ronald
Colman comes to Loew’s Colum
bia in his latest United Artists
all-talking production,. “Con
demned.” Ann Harding and
Louis Wolheim appear in sup
port. The story centers around
Devils Island, a grim jungle gird
-edby a shark-infested sea. Mi
chael, a debonair youth, who has
stolen once tod often, becomes
house boy in the warden’s home.
* In time the beautiful young wife
of the warden and Michael are
attracted to each other, but do
not dare express their feelings.
The warden hears some gossip
and places Michael in solitary
confinement. Michael escapes,
but pays his debt to society and
then returns to his sweetheart,
the warden’s wife, the warden
meantime having been killed.
Hearst Metrotbne Claude
Burrows and the Columbia Or*
chestra, Metro Movietone acts
and house features will complete
the program, which marks the
beginning of Loew’s Festival
month. f
METROPOLITAN—
“SAow oF Shows”
The most magnificent revue
ever seen and heard in Wash
ington will arrive at the Metro
politan Theater Saturday, when
Warner Brothers’ stupendous
“Show of Shows” opens its en
gagement in the National Cap
ital. Lighted by 77 stage and
screen stars of the first magni
tude and brilliantly adorned by
more than 300 Hollywood
beauties of perfect form and
features, the “Show of Shows”
is destined to set a new high
standard on audible motion pic-
Iture entertainment. Its cast
features John Barrymore, HA*
Winnie Lightner, Irene Bordoni.
Monte Blue, Richard Barthel
mess. Beatrice Lillie, Georges
Carpentier. Betty Compson. Nick
Lucas. Douglas Fairbanks. Jr..
H. B. Warner, Louise Fazenda
and many, many more.
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POLI’S—
German Opera
German grand opera week,
at Poli’s, opens a week from (
Monday, when four grand
operas wil’ be presented by T.
Arthur Smith, at whose con
cert bureau in the Kitt Music
Store tij'-ets are now on sale.
The oper.vs, with noted casts
including Mme. Johanna Gad
ski, Juliette Lippe and other
famous singers, and with an
orchestra of 54, Include “Die
Walkure ' on January 8, "Tris
tan and Isolde” on January 8,
“Don Juan” of Mozart on Jan
uary 10 and "The JFlying
Dutchman” (the only matinee),
on Tuesday, January 14. The
Isadora luncan Dancers from
Moscow will appear at Poli’s
the end of the same week. The
sparkling and sensational Mos
cow group gives two different
program* on three dates,
Thursday evening. January 9,
and Saturday matinee and eve
ning, Janiary 11.
In preparation for the opera,
four opera lectures by Kurt
Hetzel, conductor-pianist, will
be giver, through arrangement
with S. Hurok of the German
Opera and T. Arthur Smith.
The opera lectures open next
Monday evening, December 30.
at Barker Hall of the Y. W. C.
A„ where invitation tickets may
be obta'ied. or from the T.
Arthur Smith Concert Bureau
in the Kitt Music Store. 1330
G St. N. W. There is no charge
for thesi opera lecture Uckets.
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EARLE—
Dolores Costello in “Sec
ond Choice”
More beautiful than ever.
Dolores Costello returns to
Washington via the Earle The
ater screen beginning Friday
midnight, in her latest Warner
Brothers and Vitaphone star*
ring feature. "Second Choice,"
a unique story of modem love.
Jack Mulhall and Chester
Morris, at the head of a splen
did cast,'are seen as the suitors
for the hand of the beautiful
Vallery Grove, played by the
star. The girl’s mother objects
to her daughter’s penniless
lover, but Vallery champions
him until he deserts her for a
rich woman. Then, piqued and
shocked, she accepts the atten
tions of Qwen Mallory, who
proposes marriage. Vallery ac
cepts him. Then her former
lover returns and tries to per
suade her to leave her hus
band. A dramatic situation
develops from, this .unusual
triangle. Also tn the*, cast are
Edna Murphy. Charlotte Mer
riam, Ethlynne Clair. Jimmy
Clemmons, Edward Martindel.
Henry ’ Stockbridge and Anna
Chance. Vitaphone Varieties,
newsreels and music by the
Earle Orchestra are added.
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GAYETY—
“Speed Girls”
Four young women of the
diversified types blend their
charming personalities into a
burlesque* performance that
makes a lasting impression in
Fred “galls” Binder’s popular
“Speed quris ” the Mutual at
traction at the Gayety next
week. They are Evelyn Whit
ney, a brunette beauty who sings
and dances; Vena Motte,
tured ingenue; Margie Thomas,
a raven-tressed soubrette, and
Joan Tunya, a Spanish beauty, .
Who contributes an interesting
danciifg specialty. Fred Binder
Is the comedian-in-command. *
Earl F. Meyer is the straight
man, and Irving Jacobs the
dancing juvenile lead. Harry
Seyon and Sunshine Pritchard
are the womedy runners-up. A
special midnight performance
will be neld next Tuesday, Janu
* ary 1, at midnight, to “ring out
the old year *and ring in the
new.” Special features will be
added to the show.
RIALTO—* * *
“The Shannons of Broad
way?’ ' ■
The Rialto Theater yesterday
presented James and Lucille
Gleason in “The Shannons of f
Broadway,"* a screen version of
the stage show that proved so
conspicuous a success; It is
fully reviewed/on this page, v
R-K-O KEITH’S—
Rudy Vallee in **Tha
Vagabond Lover”
Rudy Vallee, idol of millions,
will erbon his unique, melo
dies in “The Vagabond Lover,”
his first talking picture, at the
local R-K-O eKith’s Theater this
week, his engagement having
yesterday. A complete
review of the picture appears
on this page.
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Plena® eonaMer thin aa an -app«al
to year (‘ntertatnment Intelligence.
Never aine® th® ancceeafnl JlMmg
Cooper an<r hie wonderful BLACK
and WHITB RKVIKW. which hna
J* «pnelt.v raecew nt
thl„ theater, have we been nble to
offer n Worthy aaeeeaaar of which
we could personally feel that we
were not exaggerating. BUT the
time has arrived and I parwonally
lay myaelf open to critietan WHEN
1 awi? th** thoae that attoad
MID-WTFE ahow tonight will aee the
grentnat entered orgnnlsatloa ever tn
annear la vWawhington in conjunction
with the finest white show.
Believe me and see a wonderful
entertainment.
JHMNY LAKE.
TAn NaNemrf Dotty
RUDY VALLEE’S
VOICE WINS
STARDOM
By ANDREW R. KELLEY
Rudy Vallee, the. curly
headed band leader who has
come into fkme and fortune
through an individualized treat
ment of the crooning love song
said to be peculiarly devastat
ing in its effect on the heart
of the emotional flapper, makes
his debut as a screen star in
“The Vagabond Lover,” which
opened at Keith’s yesterday.
As a singer of soft, sentimen
tal lyrics, Mr. Vallee may take
his place at once in the ranks
of the best celluloid minstrels.
His voice registers with clarity
and smoothness in the cycle of
tuneful melodies fitted by Holly
wood’s hit composers. You will
like, I am sure, “If You Were
the Only Girl in the World.”
"I Love You, Believe Me, I Love-
You,” “A Little Kiss Each ’
Morning.” and “I’ll Be Re
minded ol You.” All have lin-
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RUDY VALLEE
gering strains—the haunting
kind that recur pleasantly for
humming after the flimsy but
adequate screen- story has
passed from memory.
As a screen actor Rudy will
have to appear again before he
can get his diploma. His man
nerisms are stiff, he speaks
lines without expression and,
for a screen Romeo, Rie needs
the attention of a good valet,
particularly one wher can fit
his collars. So “Vagabond
Lover” becomes a picture in
which Mrt Vallee is the singing
star and the veteran Marie
Dressier walks away with the
acting honors. ' >*
Miss Dressier—the gen
erous-sized Marie of the pleas-'
antly remembered antique, “Til
lie’s Punctured Romance”— -has
a role so heavily trimmed with.
the merry hokum it approaches
burlesque, and yet with her fa
cility for winning laughs* br
extravagant expressions and
grotesque gestures her film re
birth via the talkies is soma
thing of a triumph.
The story provided by James
A. Creelman is synthetic fiction
which concerns a small ’town
band which comes from Water
ville to jazz its way into a .
wider popularity by posing as t
the orchestra of a famous
meastro. Rudy is Qie saxa
phone playing leader of the
aspiring musicians and the de
ception he is compelled to prac
tice leads him into a peck of
trouble and also into the arms
of the right girl. An altogether
improbable yam, but who cares?
The Connecticut Yankees is a
swell band and Sally Blane
makes m mighty pretty target
for the love songs.
When Rudy closes his eyes,
shakes his head and warbles i
sweet words, they tell me that
each impressionable adolescent
of the opposite sex imagines,
“He’s singing that right to me.”
Maybe that’s the secret of a
mounting popularity. To an un
romantic critic the talking
screen image presented a young
man whose eyes are too close
together and small to be' called
handsome, a sjneere and agree
able balladist, but an actor
whose resemblance to the la
mented Valentino ends with the
similar nickname.
Keith's offers as screen side
dishes “General Ginsberg,” a
comedy featuring Nat. Carr,
another laugh cocktail called
“The Rubeville Night Club.”
with H. B. Watym as the main
comic, the usual house an
nouncements and Freddy
Clark’s R-KGlians making holi
day whoopee.
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1929
DEAF ORPHAN
IS AIDED BY
FILM STAR
By DOROTHY HERZOG
(Copyright, IMS, Premier Syndicate!
HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Dec. 26.
Griffith Park, the local out
door casino for horseback rid
ing and moon gazing, went up
in smoke over the week-end. A
strong, northwest wind threat
ened to distribute the flames to
residential* sections of the col
ony. They even threatened the
First National Studio. Vol
unteers joined with firemen in
the battle against fire. Trees,
grasses, and shrubbery are as
combustible as a keg of T. N. T.
these days. It has been nigh
onto eight months since we’ve
benefited by a real rain.
Adolphe Menjou’s hundred
thousand plus house nearly pro
vided material for the ex
tensive bonfire. The Jack
Dempsey’s residence was also
*■ menaced. The chief harm,
however, seems to be to holly
trees and nervous systems.
His Chance .
The Ruth Chatterton picture,
“Sarah & Son,” called for a
youngster in several scenes who
was deaf.
It is the custom of studios,
when such conditions arise, to
go direct to the proper city au
thorities, The reason for this
is to procure a type who will
benefit by the acquisition of
the money.
The Board of Education, in
this instance, selected a lad,
nameA Frank Richmon. Frank
is 12. He has no father. His
mother has three children be
side him, one an adopted child.
She earns approximately $125 a
month. When Frank was two
years old, he suffered a spinal
meningitis stroke. It left him
deaf.
He appeared on the set for
his scenes with Miss Chatter
ton. He is an attractive boy,
made curiously pathetic by his
affliction. Ruth became inter
ested in him. Several days ago,
she sent him to a clinic for
treatment. He has been going
ever since. She is going to
have specialists take him under
their care. She is even consid
ering an aeuronautic cure for
deafness. Sometimes it works.
The patient is taken aloof in
a ’plane some 12,000 feet. The
pilot turns off his motor and
drops about 5,000 feet, repeat
ing these antics a number of
times. The sudden altitudinous
plunge is reckoned frequently
to*be sufficient shock to the
ears to eliminate deafness.
Be that as it may, Christmas
is Christmas to Frank, this
year.
Oh, George!
George Bancroft, just re
turned from his initial Euro
pean good will tour, has to get
acquainted with faces again.
For inst.:
Joan Peters was strollidg
across the Famous lot. Joan
trailed West to fem in Moran
and Mack's new outloud. While
Joan is no giant, still, she’s
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Mitzi than Gloria Swanson
looks like Ben Turpin. And
yet, when she nodded. “Hello,’’
to George, he beamed back:
“Hello, Mitzi!”
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pected. Joan sped pell-mell to
look at her last screen test.
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The latest raid scare to buzz’
the town’ is the report that
bookshops, will be visited by
bluecoats. They do be saying
that privately printed books of
llnenish contents are the bait.
A kind Os literary bootleg en
terprise • • • the Clive Brooks
have leased Mrs. Wallace Raid’s
home. Clive sold his Bev Hills
bungalow • • • Tom Mix
leased George K. Arthur’s hill-
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tempted reconciliation with
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• • • Doug Fairbanks. Jr M
figured it’d be a nifty to get
better half Joan Crawford a
fawn for a household pet. The
hitch entered when the owner
said the animal bit when angry.
“How do you know when she’s
mad?” Doug asked. “Darned
if I know?” puzzled the owner.
Joan hasn’t the fawn • • •
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