Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...authors (Gene Towne, Graham Baker, Gene Fowler), borrowing the Connecticut Yankee formula, have brought it aptly up to date. Cantor is a star-struck autograph hunter on his way to Hollywood for a rubberneck vacation among the famous faces. He stumbles on the desert location of a cinema company making an episode from the Arabian Nights, becomes an extra, falls asleep in the jar reserved for Ali Baba...
...with Building Our Nation. For twelve months Harcourt's young agent, P. K. Burney, a former high-school principal, drove furiously night and day over Texas' vast distances, covered 50,000 miles, wore out one car and bought another. Like the two agents of Row, Peterson, Paul Baker and Raymond Franklin, Agent Burney visited teachers, principals, superintendents and members of the State board to win friends for himself and his book...
...Paris, 44 years ago, Baker Paul Cimetiere sued for divorce, was refused on the grounds of insufficient brutality. Twice afterward he sued with the same result. Meantime, he and Mrne Leonie Veynes had four children. When the fiancee of one of his grandchildren threatened to break her engagement unless her future grandfather was regularized. Grandfather Cimetiere, now 77, sued again, again lost...
...production unit of Professor Baker's "47 Workshop," the Dramatic Club became noted the world over for its contributions to the English-speaking stage. When Baker left Harvard, the Club was expected to carry on its function, quite regardless of the fact that it no longer had University support and that those most interested in the stage were following Baker into the hinterland insead of coming here. Despite this handicap, the remaining members of the Club took seriously their task of forwarding the cause of progressive drama. By hard work not unmixed with inspiration, they contrived to make the Club...
Sued Mrs. Delphine Dodge Cromwell Baker Godde, divorcee Dodge auto heiress; by Cinemactress Judith Allen; for $2,000,000 for alienation of the affections of Irish Pugilist Jack Doyle; in Hollywood...