Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following the June graduation of Marian from Bennington and Ellsworth from Harvard, the pair plan to marry as soon as a job is found. Last summer Grant worked as an assistant director and messenger boy in a Hollywood studio, but prefers teaching or journalism as a future vocation...
...Gunga Din" is an excellent film. Thoroughly as exciting and far more skillfully made than any of its predecessors, it adds to the usual story of native uprisings constant suspense, some rollicking humor, and incidentally an interesting characterization of Kipling's immortal water boy. Battling a band of natives who worship the goddess of blood and show their devotion by strangling some thirty thousand persons a year, are Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. These men engage in the usual pitched battles, of course, but this time skill and originality of direction make them more than mere spectacles...
Oldtime Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander, 51, last year chosen by the Baseball Writers Association to join the 13 immortals in baseball's Hall of Fame, was discovered sharing the bill with "Sealo -Half Boy, Half Seal" and "Professor Heckler's Trained Flea Circus" in a Manhattan nickel museum...
...East he went to Vermont, got a job acting in a summer camp, followed it by a bit part in a road company. A meeting with Clifford Odets led to better parts in Group Theatre productions, the leading role in Having Wonderful Time, a part in Golden Boy, which got him his Hollywood contract...
...London Times's agony column, British sportsmen were agonized to read this advertisement: "?70 BURSARY* OFFERED at first-class Prep. School to BOY promising at games...