Word: agented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Waikiki Wedding (Paramount) exhibits Bing Crosby crooning pseudo-Hawaiian ditties through a wreath to the accompaniment of innumerable hula-hulas. As Tony Marvin, he is the indolent press-agent of Imperial Pineapple, spends his time lolling on his schooner with a hillbilly called Shad Buggle (Bob Burns). One of Marvin's sporadic publicity ideas is to choose a "Pineapple Girl" who would come to Hawaii for three weeks, syndicate her enthusiastic impressions. Winner is one Georgia Smith (Shirley Ross) of Birch Falls, Iowa, who wants romance not pineapple. Imperial Pineapple orders Tony to provide it. When crooning fails...
...Outcast" tells the story of a doctor (Warren William)) pursued by the vengeance of a family which believes him guilty of the death of one of its members. The particular agent of retribution is Karen Morley, sister-in-law of the dead woman. The melodramatic note enters when a moh attempts to lynch both Morley and William. The lynching scene is about the most improbable and at the same time one of the most effective ever filmed...
...substitute will be chosen from the above by a committee to consist of the First and Second Marshals, members of the Class Day Committee, Frederick, C. Packard '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking, and William G. Morse '99, purchasing agent...
...WASN'T A NIGHTMARE-L. F. Hay- Macmillan ($2). A middle-aged English novelist and his ward uncover the black doings of a Balkans munitions-maker; a first book by a veteran British secret agent whose fictive boiling point is lower than Oppenheim...
WILL SHAKSPERE: FACTOTUM AND AGENT - Alden Brooks - Round Table Press ($3). Somebody else tries to prove that Shakspere, the country cutup, could not have written Shakespeare's plays and poems. Iconoclast Brooks says the real "Shakespeare" was a syndicate (Marlowe, Lyly, Greene, Peele, Nashe...