Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, March 16, 1941

March 16, 1941: In one of the famous tragedies of Hollywood lore, Christopher Quinn, the son of Anthony and Katherine De Mille Quinn, drowns in a fish pond on the estate of W.C. Fields, 2015 De Mille Drive.     Lee Shippey writes about philosophies in parenting – using Deanna Durbin as a point of departure. Tom Treanor visits an orange grove in Covina where half the laborers are from Arkansas and others are from the Dust Bowl. They call the trees “bushes” and they don’t pick oranges, they “pluck” them, Treanor says. How quickly Paul Muni faded from the box office inner circle, Jimmie Fidler says.

Is this panel from “Texas Slim and Dirty Dalton” by Ferd Johnson the inspiration for El Kabong? Note the “Bong!”