Word: briens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Slim (Warner) is a story of electric linemen, the high-wire workers employed in constructing and repairing the country's power lines. With minimum resort to dramatic contrivance, it presents certain interlocking episodes in the lives of Linemen Red Blayd (Pat O'Brien) and Slim (Henry Fonda). It begins when Slim, a farm boy fascinated by the hazardous function of the linemen putting up a transmission tower, asks for a job; it ends, after Red falls to his death in a high-wire accident, with Slim climbing a tower in a blizzard to resume the repair job thus...
...trial arising from the Phoenix Park case. Best bit part: Brandon Tynan, Dublin-born actor, who got 27 curtain calls the night in 1902 when he appeared in New York in the title role of a play about Irish Patriot Robert Emmet, as J. F. X. O'Brien, oldest member of the Home Rule Party...
...lasted a week. When it ended his opponent (William Haade, a onetime steelworker) was hospitalized for a fortnight with an ankle sprained by falling at the knockout. In the picture, Kid Galahad's most spectacular victory before he wins the title is against a heavyweight named "O'Brien." O'Brien is really Bob Westell, leading California heavyweight, who this week fights Bob Pastor at Los Angeles in the first major heavyweight Dout of the season...
...Queen Mary and the late Hindenburg. Features include the running autobiography of Editor Benson; an itinerary of the best free rail route from Manhattan to the West Coast (Pennsylvania, Chicago & Alton, Missouri Pacific, Union Pacific, Denver & Rio Grande, Western Pacific) ; some fatherly counsel from Dean Danny O'Brien of the inter mittent New York Hobo College to incipient boes : "It is dangerous when bumming a lump [begging a handout] to tease or provoke the dog. . . . When through with cans, pans, etc. in jungles [hobo camps] always leave them clean. . . . Don't mix too much with tramps or bums...
...three factions: the independent Democrats who were more interested in rescuing the city from its financial plight caused by the plunder of the Walker regime and the depression; a large body of voters of Italian origin; and the Republicans. There were two other entries in the field; Mayor O'Brien carried the torch for Tammany and tried to look comfortable in a top hat, but the Scabury investigations, the Walker abdication, and the forthright disavowal of their cause by Mr. Roosevelt as Governor had discredited his case. Mr. McKee, an independent Democrat, made up a strong personal ticket and clinched...