What’s fascinating are the ads for live plays in these pages. The stars who were onstage - including the Tin Man and Cowardly Lion!
I like those too. I saw Jack Haley right off, in "Higher and Higher." The Cowardly Lion eluded me for a while until I spotted him in "Du Barry Was a Lady," with Betty Grable (Soon to be pinned to the walls of tents all over the world.)
The traffic on the path from Broadway to Hollywood was heavy back then. John Garfield, in "Heavenly Express." Monty Woolley will transfer "The Man Who Came to Dinner" directly to the screen before long. Didn't Will Geer upgrade from "Tobacco Road" to Walton's Mountain decades later? Ricky Ricardo in (naturally) "Too Many Girls." And how about Burgess Meredith, Ingrid Bergman and Elia Kazan in some furrin film?
I should have said, some furrin play.