“THE SHADOW KNOWS”, Victor Jorry’s(“Lamont Cranston”)weekly radio come up pence, with his fans in Brooklyn and the surrounding venues Park Slope (Kirk Douglas’s mother’s bastion, opposite the Pavilion theater, the Yale Drama School (New Haven., Connecticut) where the Shadow’s son attended and the East Flatbush haunts of Public School 233.and the newTilden High School on Kings Highway, nee Tilden Avenue., television’s Sam Levinson into his “Habla el Espanol”classrooms.
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What brings it all to mind is Bernie Sanders realization that his Presidential campaign let go hundreds of his energetic staffers, the fodders reading the stars of the 2016 of the Presidential sweats of 2016 that the Brooklyn born Bernie lost his focus, with his solo victory in the Rhode Island primary on Tuesday.
But Bernie out of neighboring Madison HIGH on Kings Highway had made his son of immigrants point. That America needs and resonates his point of 74 year old Bernie. That ourDemocracy is not a wasteland beholden to bullying big money and exploitation. That the minions, were with the marketplace, but his campaign emancipated millions of humans, by throwing light and dialogue on the rivaling manipulators of “The Shadow Know”, Victor Jory’s own need to shed light on the alleged plotsinadequacies of emerging as a grown up in post War Heavenly Hills.
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But as the campaign rolls on into Indiana, California, New Mexico, Oregon and several other state primaries, the 1237numbers for the contenders gaining the nod from their designated delegates, (“Shades of Huey Long”) “The Shadow Knows”, Victory Jory as Lamont Cranston, his son Jon , guidingthe distance… staging plays, Louisville, Kentucky, the “Shadow Kos” still had to bear the long 99 year Stanley Kramer’s “the Champion” an Park Place movie house opposite Prospect Park…..Park Slope, the theater being the Pavilion….Lauren Bacall’s husband ‘s and father in law’s original art theater.
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Ninety nine years old, walking with a cane, aided and abetted by his son Michael, an actor in his own tempo, playing volley ball at Eugene O’Neil’s New London estate.….
”The Shadow (Lamont Cranston) Knows”……Right Margo? Right”
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In a footnote to the Beverly Hills tennis club (1939- postKorean 39th parallel war) heiress (92 years Gloria Vanderbilt) hitched her vision to Sergeant Cubby Broccoli. Her own magnitude of her Vanderbilt “fortune”, ignitingthe prospects of “Stokie” Howard Hughes, Greg Bautzer,Marlon Brando, Frank Sinotra, and those James Bond personas, in quest of the promised land…. agents and deals, doubles in tennis, notwithstanding.
April 28, 2016 Beverly Hills, the City that never sleeps..
