Word: barkers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hollywood première, Lana Turner, whose fourth husband, Cinemactor Lex ("Tarzan") Barker, likes her as a brunette, looked happy as a turtledove, although their marriage, which took place in Italy, was all of 3½ months old. Just to prove that this match is forever, Lana and Lex were married again on Christmas Eve for the benefit of her mother, her attorney and her daughter Cheryl, 10, who had all missed the earlier ceremony...
...Margaret Harpstrite, a conciliation commissioner in Los Angeles children's court, happened to tell her boss, Judge Georgia Bullock, that an interesting case was on the docket: Actress Susan Hay ward and her estranged husband Jess Barker were coming in to talk over the custody of their children. "Fine," said motherly Judge Bullock. "Let me know when they come...
18th Century America (Fire and the Hammer, by Shirley Barker; Crown). A willful girl with a pretty but empty head pursues a recalcitrant Quaker for more than a decade and finally gets...
Unlike its predecessors, this new grand tour is never moralistic, never theological, always entertaining. The sins, presented as vignettes, are made by six groups of the finest cinema talent of France and Italy, and the framework for their presentation is a carnival doll representing each. A glib barker, Gerard Philippe, goads the crowds to knock each doll off its pedestal, and as each falls, the scene fades into the filmlets...
...Louis to see the World's Fair, and lost all his money matching pennies with a "very agreeable fellow who said he was a Texan, too. from Amarillo." Ever since, Bob has had a hopeless affair with fairs and carnivals, and today he is the best barker Dallas ever had, and one of the best in the awesome tent show of Texas...