Oscar (19 March 1934);

[Sam Clements]

That about seals it.  The awards banquet took place on the 16th.  This story
was filed on the 18th.  Hard to believe that there will be found an earlier
reference.  At least one that Skolsky copied to come up with the name.

The disconcerting thing is, Skolsky rattles off "Oscar" as if it was a know
term.  Why?
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> OSCAR
>
>    19 March 1934, DAILY NEWS (NY), pg. 32, col. 3:
> _Hollywood_
> By Sidney Skolsky
> _The Gossipel Truth_
>       Palm Springs, Cal., March 18.
>    THE ACADEMY awards met with the approval of Hollywood, there being
practically no dissension...The Academy went out of its way to make the
results honest and announced that balloting would continue until 8:00
o'clock of the banquet evening...Then many players arrive late and demanded
the right to vote...So voting continued until 10 o'clock or for two hours
after the ballot boxes were supposed to be closed...It was King Vidor who
said: "This year the election is on the level"...Which caused every one to
comment about the other years...Although Katharine Hepburn wasn't present to
receive her Oscar, her constant companion and the gal she resides with in
Hollywood, Laura Harding, was there to hear Hepburn get a round of applause
for a change...
>
>
>    That's the earliest Skolsky "Oscar" I could find.  No explanation.
>    The March 15th (Pg. 54) Skolsky column is about Alice Faye.  "She is
strictly a Jean Harlow type and talks the lingo of the sidewalks of New
York. ... She is a blazing blonde with eyes of blue."