[78-L] Live comedy

[David Lennick]

On 4/10/2011 4:12 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> On 4/10/2011 12:50 PM, David Lennick wrote:

>> I would definitely include [Will] Rogers, and his 78s have the "top of my head"
>> atmosphere even if there was no audience. By the way, just this morning I read
>> a great line about him in a letter from James Thurber to Fred Allen.."Actually,
>> this bosom friend of senators and congressmen was about as daring as an early
>> Shirley Temple movie."
>
> Notice that he specified EARLY Shirley Temple movies.  Remember, Shirley
> was TOPLESS in her first films.  Speaking of bosom friends . . .
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

So Thurber was a dirty old man. Who knew? Besides The Unicorn in the Garden.

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