[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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