Word: barkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paramount). Though fantastic and melodramatic, The Sea God has the merit of an original idea. "Pink" Barker and one Schultz, rival sea captains of the south seas, wager their ships on the outcome of a race. Daisy, in love with Barker but unwilling to show it until he mends his shiftless ways, stows away with him. Barker's craft is far ahead until he turns back to rescue a demented derelict in an open boat. The derelict dies after telling of a great pearl bed off a nearby island. Because of the rescue Barker loses the race and his ship...
Torch Song. Few playwrights excel Kenyon Nicholson (The Barker, Eva the Fifth) in exploiting honkytonk, backstage or carnival scenes. Few producers can put on a better show of this sort than Arthur Hopkins, who directed and helped write Burlesque. A Hopkins-Nicholson collaboration has now resulted in an extraordinarily valid and impressive play called Torch Song...
They did. Hurling bricks, bottles, shooting guns, they broke the cordon of troops, set the courthouse aflame, hacked the hose of arriving firemen. In the fracas, John Melton and Floyd Barker were shot by comrades. The $60,000 building was demolished. George Hughes, in his vault, eventually roasted to death...
...someone get me a sandwich?" She got bigger jobs quickly, went on the road for a while. After rehearsing for an hour, she stepped into the leading part in High Stakes (1925). As Lou in The Barker, she won fame, a cinema contract and a husband (Norman Foster). Her first pic- ture, For the Love of Alike (silent), did not please her; she gave up the idea of a cinema career until talking pictures came in. Cast with Maurice Chevalier in The Big Pond (not yet released), she taught him one word of U. S. slang per day, explaining what...
...Welch Rabbits," a cartoon in a Yale classbook, depicted Dr. Welch as a magician. From a silk hat he was drawing rabbits, labeled with names of his students. Some of the rabbits' names: Joseph Colt Bloodgood, Simon Flexner, Franklin P. Mall, William Sydney Thayer, Lewellys Barker, Eugene Lindsay Opie, George Blumer, Walter Reed, James Carroll...