"Don't call us, we'll call you" (1949)...(1948)

[Bapopik at AOL.COM]

In a message dated 6/21/2007 11:03:15 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
Bapopik at AOL.COM writes:

27  January 1949, Brownsville (TX) Herald, pg. 12, col. 2:
_In  Hollywood_
_International Star Brisson_
_Has Interesting Life  Story_
by Erskine Johnson
(...)
Carl Brisson was one of the first  movie stars I ever met.
(...)
He made the rounds of the studios. Yes,  producers and directors remembered
his big hit on the screen in 1934, but  well, "come around some other day but
don't call us, we'll call  you."


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This Erskine Johnson column appears also in the 18 January 1949 Zanesville
(OH) Signal. Add a comma--"1934, but, well..."
...
...
3 March 1948, Lima (OH) News, pg. 11, col. 4:
_One Man's Opinion_
By Walter Kiernan
(Distributed by INS)
(...)
They have been promised time of their own when something opens up. The way
Stalin left it was "don't call us...we'll call you."



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