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Word: bum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University Theatre presents two very worth while pictures this week: Nancy Carroll and John Boles in "Child of Manhattan," and "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum" with Al Jolson and Madge Evans. The first of these pictures is a witty, sophisticated story of life in the big city and points west. The lines in it are good with occasional touches of double meaning. The plot, while a trifle emotional, is not at all dripping; in fact in some touching scenes, where usual University audiences would laugh, there were moist eyes...

Author: By F. H. W., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/14/1933 | See Source »

Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (United Artists -Joseph Schenck) was written by Ben Hecht, adapted by Samuel Behrman. scored by Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart. directed by Lewis Milestone and acted by, among others, Al Jolson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 20, 1933 | 2/20/1933 | See Source »

Loew's State and Orphoum--"Hallelujah, I'm a Bum." AI Jolson returns to the movies but is not so hot in this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/9/1933 | See Source »

...grandmother in Ohio, another youngster took to shuttling by freight between Florida, California, New York. Unbeaten, he voiced a common philosophy: "I'll not need help when times get better. I'll get a. job. I'll get out of all this. If I go regular bum I'm done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Young Transients | 2/6/1933 | See Source »

Cohan). Found on a park bench chatting familiarly with the pigeons, the bum has told the tycoon a story of his life. The tycoon, astounded by a renegade with elements of greatness, offers Parker hospitality, grudgingly refused. A neat plot, promising an idea play, skitters at that point into Pirandello-echoing lunacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 30, 1933 | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

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