Category Archives: Columnists

Paul V. Coates – Confidential File, Nov. 7, 1959

Posted on November 7, 2009 by lmharnisch

    Public Unexcited About Rigged Shows I'm home.     And if you've been following my dispatches from the Mysterious East, I'm sure you're aware by now that there is really nothing mysterious about it at all.      I suspect … Continue reading →

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A Kinder, Simpler Time Dept.: Your Movie Columnist

Posted on November 7, 2009 by lmharnisch

  Nov. 7, 1944: Gracie Allen performs her new work, “Concerto for Index Finger.” Some of Charles Laughton’s recordings of the Bible are too hot to handle or at least they're too hot for Decca.  Yes, you can find the … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, Nov. 6, 1959

Posted on November 6, 2009 by lmharnisch

  Racing the Stork     A woman in the throes of becoming a mother was being driven to General Hospital by a  neighbor one night recently and as they reached the Civic Center it became apparent they weren't going to … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates – Confidential File, Nov. 6, 1959

Posted on November 6, 2009 by lmharnisch

  Now Hear This and Then Smell This     THOUGHTS ON THE LONG VOYAGE HOME:  The things you remember most are the sounds and the smells of the Orient.     The sound, in Japan, of women's voices, subdued but constant, … Continue reading →

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A Kinder, Simpler Time Dept.: Your Movie Columnist

Posted on November 6, 2009 by lmharnisch

   Nov. 6, 1943: “Rene Clair, before deciding as to whether Lily Pons will sing for Nellie Melba in ‘It Happened Tomorrow,’ takes two days off to listen to more would-be Melbas. I'm amazed that Lily Pons would even consider … Continue reading →

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November 5, 1959: Matt Weinstock

Posted on November 5, 2009 by lmharnisch

The Tax Bite Tuesday was the day of the big blow.  No, it wasn’t windy.  It was the day the tax bills hit the fan. The resultant moans have ranged from low and plaintive, tapering off into controlled disgust, to … Continue reading →

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November 5, 1959: Paul V. Coates – Confidential File

Posted on November 5, 2009 by lmharnisch

Hunger Way of Life in ‘Pearl of Orient’ Hong Kong — In this bedlam of political intrigue, British pomposity, sly international trade, glamour and abject poverty, I’ve learned a very disturbing thing about myself. I never thought the time would … Continue reading →

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A Kinder, Simpler Time Dept.: Your Movie Columnist

Posted on November 5, 2009 by lmharnisch

  Nov. 5, 1942: Lon Chaney Jr. is preparing for a role in Universal’s remake of “The Phantom of the Opera” … well, not quite.

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Matt Weinstock, Nov. 4, 1959

Posted on November 4, 2009 by lmharnisch

  Confused Stranger     Let us stipulate that people are rushing into the L.A. area at the rate of 640 — or is it 704? — a day and it is inevitable that there are strangers in our midst.  Now … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates – Confidential File, Nov. 4, 1959

Posted on November 4, 2009 by lmharnisch

Hong Kong Smells Unlike Peach Orchard     HONG KONG — There's an astonishing distance between the Orient of Tokyo and the Orient of this British Crown Colony.    Although Hong Kong is only a few hours away by air, it is … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, Nov. 3, 1959

Posted on November 3, 2009 by lmharnisch

      Lockheed has plans for a monorail system for Southern California. Haven in Cyprus     How does it go, one may wonder, with those resolute citizens who muster the courage to drop everything and leave the rat race for … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates – Confidential File, Nov. 3, 1959

Posted on November 3, 2009 by lmharnisch

 Erwin “He Walked by Night” Walker is recaptured. Japan of Today Has Its Lost Generation     TOKYO — There are striking things you see when you look at a country 14 years after it lost the most devastating war in … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, Nov. 2, 1959

Posted on November 2, 2009 by lmharnisch

  Power of a Pet     An old man whose increasing bitterness in his last years antagonized his family and friends died recently.  Despite their feeling toward him and toward each other because of him, they all came to the … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates – Confidential File, Nov. 2, 1959

Posted on November 2, 2009 by lmharnisch

  TV game show winner Charles Van Doren says everything was a fake. There's a Strange Girl in His Bath     TOKYO — You know what you've always heard about those Japanese public baths?  Well, don't believe it.    We Americans … Continue reading →

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A Kinder, Simpler Time Dept.: Your Movie Columnist

Posted on November 2, 2009 by lmharnisch

  Nov. 2, 1939: Hedda Hopper, matchmaker.

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A Kinder, Simpler Time Dept.: Your Movie Columnist

Posted on November 1, 2009 by lmharnisch

  Nov. 1, 1938: Hedda Hopper begins writing a column on Hollywood. I thought it would be interesting to spend a month surveying her newspaper career.

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Matt Weinstock, Oct. 31, 1959

Posted on October 31, 2009 by lmharnisch

  Still another panel you'll never see in the legacy version of "Peanuts." Eccentric? Us?     Deserved or not, people in Los Angeles have acquired a reputation for eccentricity.  Today there's evidence that we normal, ordinary folk may be the … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates – Confidential File, Oct. 31, 1959

Posted on October 31, 2009 by lmharnisch

    Sparrow Just Not Columnist's Dish     TOKYO — I hope you're fine, but me? I'm a bit under the weather.  Got this kind of queasy feeling in the pit of my stomach.      You see, I have good … Continue reading →

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October 30, 1959: Matt Weinstock

Posted on October 30, 2009 by lmharnisch

In case you’re too young to understand Matt Weinstock’s reference, Crest toothpaste had a famous – and frequently satirized – ad campaign in the 1950s. Seized by Indians*  Last Saturday as Hildred M. Hodgson, a lively grandmother, was walking along … Continue reading →

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October 30, 1959: Paul V. Coates – Confidential File

Posted on October 30, 2009 by lmharnisch

Columnist’s Face Saved at Low Cost TOKYO — In today’s lesson, boys and girls, we will turn our rapt attention to the strange Japanese preoccupation with “saving face.” All we’ve known about it in the past, of course, is what … Continue reading →

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