A hot time in old Milwaukee!
March 10, 1944
HOLLYWOOD, March 9 — SISTER KENNY ARRIVED IN TOWN WEDNESDAY to be the house guest of Rosalind Russell. Simultaneously with the arrival of the woman who has done so much for infantile paralysis sufferers, we learn that Roz is playing “Sister Kenny” — and for RKO. The script is right back where it started — on Charlie Koerner’s desk. I have an idea when the picture is made that it will be Mary McCarthy’s script and not the treatment by Clifford Odets. Roz told me that she thought the McCarthy script was infinitely better. Never has there been such excitement over any one picture, and I am certainly glad that Roz, who loves Sister Kenny, will play that grand woman.
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“Bozo Davis?” That is either the best or the worst stripper name I have ever heard. Did she keep her big red nose on?
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To a kid in late forties and early fifties Milwaukee, the Empress burlesque house was fascinating and a bit mysterious. The theater, once a grand legitimate house, sat at the seedier end of Milwaukee’s two-block long rialto, and was pulled down in the late fifties at the behest of the city’s burgermeisters, who thought it not in keeping with the gemeutlich image they were striving for.
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