Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three Men On A Horse (Warner Brothers). Oiwin Trowbridge (Frank McHugh), the greeting-card poet, originating obscurely in the brain of John Cecil Holm, sharpened and clarified by Playwright George Abbott, has attained the gigantic stature that comes to a stage character with 96 weeks on Broadway, five road companies in the U. S., one in Australia and successful presentations in London and Paris. Oiwin's prestige made him a serious problem to Hal Walk's, Warners' production boss, and his able aide, Sam Bischoff. They owned the picture rights to the play. Warners had backed...
Presently the big automobile reached Mountain View, was coursing down a road lined with orchards when a Buick sedan belonging to Valley Electric Co. suddenly popped out of an intersection. In the resultant crash, Audrey McCann was thrown out, knocked unconscious, hospitalized for four weeks with a brain concussion, an eye injury, many a laceration. The McCanns and the Hoffmans remained friends until John McCann tried to collect damages. When the Hoffmans and their insurance company refused to pay, the McCanns sued the Hoffmans for $30,000 general damages, plus $1,237.65 special damages...
...corner of this country, at least, the pesky problem of the agricultural surplus has been solved. Right in line with all American principles of rugged individualism the solution came, not from black-capped college professors or brain trustees, but from the colored cook of that homespun novelist, Edna Ferber. A friend of ours who recently had the pleasure of visiting her in New York spent most of her time being shown the glories of the lady writer's new Park Avenue penthouse, famous in the eyes of its present possessor as the former home of Ivar Krueger, the match king...
They've got to leave that brain outside...
...they've a brain and cerebolium...