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Jack & Mary: 1936
March 13, 1936. Washington, D.C. "Man and woman disembarking from train." 4x5 inch glass negative, Harris & Ewing Collection. View full size. Washington Post, March 14, 1936:
Arriving for Week at Loew's Fox
Arriving in the Capital early yesterday morning, Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone -- Mrs. Benny in private life -- were met and breakfasted by a group of Loew's executives and newspaper representatives. Mr. and Mrs. Benny are here for a week of personal appearances, in conjunction with an elaborate stage revue, at Loew's Fox Theater. Mr. Benny's Sunday night broadcast will be made from the auditorium of the National Press Club ...
Forever 39
And in this photo, Jack has just celebrated his 3rd 39th birthday the month prior. He would pass away in 1974 having celebrated his 39th birthday 41 times!
Watch your step Jack
It would be awfully easy to miss that cheesy little step they put down. A PI lawyer
would be salivating at that these days.
Watch your step Jack.
Just about missed the stepstool. Won't be any vaudeville dancing for a couple days.
Fabulous Fox, fabulous Benny
They're headed for a venue appropriate to Benny's stardom. Loew's Fox, opened in 1927, was the last theater designed by Cornelius Ward Rapp of the Rapp & Rapp architectural firm. The grandest of Washington's movie houses, it was renamed Loew's Capitol five months after this Shorpy photo was taken. Closed in 1963, it was demolished the following year--all but the elegant archway, which is now the entry to the National Press Club from which Benny made his March 15 broadcast.
Benny: "Think of it, just one mile from the White House--it's closer than Al Smith ever got."
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