HE HAD the most celebrated nose in showbiz – a fact Jimmy Durante played up to great effect. His touring show, The Hollywood Lover, billed the actor and comedian as ‘The Great Schnozzola’ when it arrived in Glasgow in the spring of 1936. (The city has another interesting, albeit very small connection with the legendary star. On the cobbled street recreated for Glasgow’s Museum of Transport, the poster advertising what films are coming to the Regal cinema in 1938 includes mention of Little Miss Broadway, the movie Durante appeared in with Shirley Temple. He was a huge star.) Durante, according to his obituary in our sister newspaper The Glasgow Herald, was ‘a survivor of the golden days of American vaudeville and went on to become an international star in radio, films, television and records.