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Little Ol' Boy (by Albert Bein; Henry Hammond Inc., producer). Considerable fanfare prefaced the appearance of Little Ol' Boy. No less than six reputable producers announced it for production in the past two years. The success of the playwright's The Heavenly Express, presented by a suburban repertory theatre last summer, added to the general bally- hoo. At one point James Cagney was said to have planned to retire temporarily from the films and take a part in Little Ol' Boy. For once, preliminary enthusiasm is justified. Little Ol' Boy has all the earmarks...
...good word for me before he died?" asks plaintive Mrs. Sanger. "Naw!" says Red. "He died hatin' everybody like a man with any guts should." He hesitates, just before being taken away. "He did have a good word to say for you," hard-boiled Red finally admits. Albert Bein, author of this vital, brilliantly cast play, is no stranger to reform schools. He spent five years in one, lost a leg trying to escape. Poems which he wrote while imprisoned were praised by Clarence Darrow, Zona Gale. Russian-born, he is now 29. In 1930 he wrote a book...
Appointed. Captain Leopold Ziegen-bein, master of North German Lloyd's Bremen, as Commodore of the Fleet, succeeding the late Nicolaus Johnsen, Enropa's master (TIME, Dec. 19); Captain Paul Wiehr, master of Hamburg-American's Albert Ballin, as Commodore of the Fleet; Harold Spencer Jones. Cape of Good Hope Observatory's astronomer, as Britain's Astronomer Royal at the Greenwich Observatory; Orville Wright, "first man to fly a powered heavier-than-air craft" (see p. 19), as first Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences; Newton Diehl Baker, as trustee of Ohio State...
...best shot was a 676, made in 1911 on a record crossing from Cherbourg to Manhattan. Last week the Bremen, on her first day out from Cherbourg sped 687 miles for a new world's one-day record. As she nosed into Manhattan plump Captain Leopold Ziegen-bein snapped his stopwatch and beamingly announced that the Bremen's time from Cherbourg to Ambrose Light had been 4 days, 17 hours, 42 minutes. The Maure-tania's best record for the same course was 5 days, 2 hours, 34 minutes. On her second day out the Bremen jauntily...
...Smith's bein' a Catholic ain't goin' to hurt him none. What's goin' to hurt him is his being a Democrat...