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Actor and announcer Brad Holiday, who resides on 57xx Waterman, provides the following points of celebrity trivia: • The Skouras brothers, in all likelihood, were owners of the Pageant Theatre at Delmar and Laurel. Spiros Skouras went on to head Twentieth Century Fox. • How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying is enjoying a successful reprise on Broadway. Its author, Shepherd Meade, grew up in Parkview and graduated from Washington University. • Edmund Hartmann lived at 57xx Waterman; his father was a judge.
He became a very successful playwright and screenwriter.
He wrote The Pale Face for Bob Hope and worked on a number of other Hope vehicles.
He was nominated for the Academy Award and also produced My Three Sons on TV. • Vice President Alben Barkley, Truman’s Veep, was married at St. John’s Methodist Church on Kingshighway.
The reception was held on Pershing, just east of DeBaliviere. • Georgia Frontiere of course grew up in Skinker DeBaliviere and skated at the Wintergarden. Sonia Henjie skated there too. • Curt Flood, of outfielding and reserve clause fame, had a jazz club near DeBaliviere and Delmar. • Jackson Scholz–the track star portrayed in Chariots of Fire— lived on Nina Place in his early years. • Gabby Street, a broadcaster and ball player, once lived on De Giverville. • Nearby, Vincent Price grew up on Forsyth across from Washington University. • In 1931, an English actor later known as Cary Grant performed at the MUNY and lived at the Gatesworth (now Westmoreland on the Park). One night a woman found him sitting out in front of the building with his head in his hands.
When asked what was the matter, he said that he couldn’t get a date.
All the chorus girls had turned him down!
He always had great affection for St. Louis and put Jack Good from the MUNY in one of his pictures, Father Goose. • Kennedy’s and Garavelli’s served many a MUNY star.
The players hung out at the old Parkmoor too.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, June 1995.
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