Word: bus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Black Cat (Universal), "suggested" by Edgar Allan Poe's famed story of a murderer's retribution, takes place in a sleek modernistic house built by a demented Austrian (Boris Karloff) on the remains of a World War fortress. A bus accident one stormy night sends into this evil abode a U. S. detective story writer, his bride, and a jittery psychiatrist (Bela Lugosi) who suspects that years ago Karloff stole his wife and daughter. Lugosi's suspicions are confirmed when Karloff shows him his waxy-looking spouse among a collection of prettily embalmed women in the cellar...
...slogan originated with a raw bus boy who, when Janssen asked him to summon the head waiter, shouted "Janssen wants to see you." To remind himself to reprimand the boy Janssen jotted the phrase in his notebook. Its catchiness appealed to him and he repeated it on 50 postcards, mailed them to his friends. Next night, he swears, all 50 appeared at his Hofbrau...
Fifth Avenue Bus. Still another type of election trouble started in Manhattan. Fifth Avenue Coach Co. has long boasted of its fairness and liberal dealing with its employes, 98% of whom are supposed to belong to a company union. Early in February the A. F. of L. union distributed circulars calling the men to strike. Only one of its 1,450 employes quit. The A. F. of L. union appealed to the Regional Labor Board, headed by Mrs. Eleanore M. Herrick, to call an election. She ordered an election and invited the company to send official representatives to the polling...
...historic dates is still gratified. Beginning at 2,000 B.C., Chapin girls march down the centuries by memorizing some five dates each week. Almost the only outward change which recent years have brought is that, with chauffeurs less plentiful, more girls walk to Park Avenue for the free bus service Miss Chapin established to carry them to & from school...
University--"Fugitive Lovers". Sex and crime in the persons of Madge Evans and Robert Montgomery form a lurid union in a Greyhound bus; Ted Healy and his stooges provide much needed comic relief. "All of Me". A good play spoiled by the director and partially redeemed by Miriam Hopkins...