Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...request of the Darien, Connecticut, boy's mother, forty Coast Guard cutters from three states piled coastal waters yesterday, but latest reports did not reveal the whereabouts of man or boat...
...pleading that they are 'pure spirits.' " One thing Mime Enters found in performers like Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson. Jimmy Savo, Moran & Mack and the Fratellinis was timing raised to a high art. She raised it, in some instances, higher. Her use of castanets in a dance-pantomime called Boy Cardinal, composed in 1932, was something Bojangles or even the late great La Argentina might have envied...
...committee also picked a baker's dozen of "outstanding performances," this time ducking behind an alphabetical redan: Harry Baur in The Golem, Humphrey Bogart in Black Legion, Charles Boyer in Conquest, Nikolai Cherkassov in Baltic Deputy, Jackie Cooper in Boy of the Streets, Danielle Darrieux in Mayerling, Greta Garbo in Camille, Robert Montgomery in Night Must Full, Maria Ouspenskaya in Conquest, Luise Rainer in The Good Earth, Joseph Schildkraut in The Life of Emile Zola, Mathias Wieman in The Eternal Mask, Dame May Whitty in Night Must Fall. Unmentioned was Hollywood's 1937 pride, Paul Muni (Zola), recently...
...song went practically unnoticed until last summer Johnny & George, a Negro piano team, played it at a Jewish summer resort in New York's borsch belt, then brought it to a Broadway night club. There it was heard by Saul Chaplin and Sammy Cahn, two East Side boys who had written Posin', Shoe Shine Boy, Rhythm Is Our Business, could recognize a song when they heard it. They put English lyrics to Bei Mir Bist Du Schön, retained the original title, carried it to Harms, their publishers. Harms, delighted with the plaintive, minor tune that sounded...
VERTIGO-Lynd Ward-Random House ($3). Woodcutter Lynd Ward's fourth and most straightforward picture-novel (others: Gods' Man, Mad Man's Drum, Wild Pilgrimage). Proletarian victims are a boy and girl from Manhattan's slums; Capitalist villain, an old man somewhat reminiscent of the late John D. Rockefeller...