[78-L] Trouble in Mind^

Taylor Bowie bowiebks at isomedia.com
Thu Jan 22 12:35:41 PST 2009


Wish there had been  a  Leah Bay...she could have made records with the 
organist Ann LEAF.

Or with a small band:  Bay-Leaf's Lucky Seven.

Taylor




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] 1933 showbiz trivia


> Fun stuff! And Leah Bay should be Leah Ray.
>
> dl
>
> Stephen Davies wrote:
>>         In my Internet prowl for details on Jack Denny, I found this
>> paragraph in the Ubyssey (pronounced UBC) from the students' association
>> at the University of British Columbia, Vol XVI, No 18, 1933-nov-28, p. 3.
>>         (
>> http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/pdfs/ubyssey/UBYSSEY_1933_11_28.pdf )
>> <<<
>> DID YOU KNOW:
>>         Billy Jones was once a telephone linesman and Ernie Hare a baking
>> powder salesman.  Stoopnagle and Budd are now in N.Y. vodvil.  Jeanie 
>> Lang
>> has left Jack Denny.  Fred Waring has most highly insured band in 
>> country.
>>  Fred Allen's real name is John Florence Sullivan.  George Burns' is Nat
>> Birnbaum.  George Olsen is now in Hotel Pennsylvania and will be reunited
>> on air soon with Ethel Shutta.  Leah Bay averaged 94 in her school work
>> and edited the high school paper in Norfolk, Va. less than two years ago.
>> Abe Lyman was christened Abraham Simon and his ambition is to be locked 
>> up
>> in a room with Hitler.
>>
>>         Obviously a reprint of a newswire or subscription service for
>> filler.  Having listened to a very combative Abe Lyman on the Jack Benny
>> show, I like the idea of him cornering Hitler.
>> - Stephen D
>> Calgary
>>
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