Word: allan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leaps Actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr., a well-intentioned masher with a way of laughing the law's locksmiths out of doing their sworn duty. The result for the first few reels is bright, well-ordered mirth from the gag-laden pens of Scenarists Gene Towne, Graham Baker and Allan Scott. But when the pens run dry, the authors resort to paleo-Chaplin antics like beery hiccups, pratfalls in a skating rink. Catchiest Jerome Kern tune: You Couldn't Be Cuter...
Professor Theodore Morrison, Monday 4-5:30 o'clock; Prof. B. F. Wright, Tuesday 3.30-5.30 o'clock; Mr. L. F. McHugh, Wednesday 3.30-5.30 o'clock; Dr. R. A. Brewer, Thursday 3.30-5.30 o'clock; Dr. Allan Evans, Friday 3.30-5.30 o'clock...
Professor Theodore Morrison, Monday 4-6 o'clock; Professor B. F. Wright, Tuesday 3.30-5.30 o'clock; Mr. L. F. McHugh, Wednesday 3.30-5.30 o'clock; Dr. R. A. Brower, Thursday 3.30-5.30 o'clock; Dr. Allan Evans, Friday 3.30-5.30 o'clock...
...Allan Hancock was the browbeaten son of an overbearing dowager who made him house his wife in the back yard of her vast Los Angeles estate. In 1925 he lost his only son, Bertram, in the Santa Barbara earthquake. He turned to mechanics, playing engineer at the throttle of his Santa Maria Valley Railroad engines; to aeronautics, learning to fly and fostering the Hancock Foundation College of Aeronautics in Santa Maria; to music, with serious and successful study of the cello; to yachting, with what has become a formidable interest in marine biology...
...scientific adventure rather than romantic has been the object of his cruises in the wake of Charles Darwin's Beagle. Allan Hancock is credited with at least two discoveries-the fish Aganostomus hancocki Seale and the lizard Diploglossus hancocki (Slevin). Among the prodigious animals he brought back last week...