Word: boarders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lake Garda, Italy, Loretta Turnbull, 18-year-old Monrovia, Calif, out-boarder, competed against the best professional drivers in Europe for the PFN cup, put up by the Fascist Party in a meet organized by Poet-Out boarder Gabriele d'Annunzio. She drove her Sunkist Kid V across the line first in the first heat, second in the next after fixing her motor which had faltered at the start, won the cup on her average time...
Laugh and Get Rich (RKO). Small-town boarding houses are still a pre-eminent locale for a certain kind of unpretentious comedy, usually built around the lady who runs the boarding house, her loafer husband, her pretty daughter, the star and other boarders. In Laugh and Get Rich, written by Douglas MacLean who four years ago was a famed comedian, the star boarder is a swindler. Another boarder dabbles in inventions. Both are interested in the pretty daughter. The swindler persuades the landlady's husband to steal his wife's money, buy stock in an oil company. The inventor...
James Matthew Maxon of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Tennessee, went on trial in Manhattan for drunkenly attempting, while a student last year at the Columbia University School of Journalism, to attack his landlady, one Rose Hickey, 53, and for slaying with a chair Printer David Paynter, 73, another boarder, who rushed to the landlady's assistance...
...Bill (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This is better than most program pictures because it does not fit completely into any standard classifications. It is not a melodrama or a farce, but something between. Marie Dressier as proprietress of a boarding house on the wharfs, Wallace Beery as her star boarder and sweetheart, have some good lines. Sometimes they act competently and sometimes they burlesque with unconscious ludicrousness; particularly Miss Dressier who, made a star because of the extravagant praise given her for her work in bit-parts (TIME, July 28), has now kept on making bit-parts out of roles...
Result of this old-style manhunt: discovery of MacDonald, now a telephone operator in a Baltimore apartment house. A Baltimore couple recognized the Scripps-Howard picture as their onetime boarder, "Mr. Mac," who night after night sleeplessly paced the floor. He was arrested, held at a police station "for investigation, suspected of being wanted by the California authorities." Then he summoned a lawyer, issued a statement: "I never saw Mooney until . . . told by an officer that this was [he]. . . . My testimony in the various cases was untrue and false. I desire to undo the wrong done by me in sending...