Word: cabs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sudden rise to cinematic fame in the past year can be traced, like so many others in Hollywood, principally to a misspent youth. Too independent to follow his father's profession of public accountant, he ran away from school at 14, earned his living for five years as cab driver, lifeguard, reporter, tile setter, office boy, bank clerk. Where an orderly schooling might have refined, this helter-skelter existence served to aggravate the amazing accent of an illiterate Hell's Kitchen ragamuffin which is now his principal financial asset. Stander's first important cinema role...
...rolling stock this ownership is revealed by a plaque with a legend like this: "New York Central Lines Equipment Trust of 1924. Guaranty Trust Co. of N. Y., trustee, owner." On a coach the plaque is usually riveted to the side of the car, on a locomotive below the cab. On American Airlines equipment a plaque to the same effect will probably be attached to the fuselage under the wing...
...Filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission was a curious syndicate agreement between Cord Corp. and President Morris Markin of Checker Cab, which Cord controls. This control (64,000 shares of Checker stock) is held by the syndicate, which is a polite word for pool. President Markin's interest in the pool is 6,500 shares. Last August the pool agreement, which has elaborate provisions to keep the two members from chiseling each other, was extended for five years and broadened to allow trading in securities of other taxi or allied companies, including Chicago Yellow Cab and Parmelee Transportation...
...line is extremely limited and for this reviewer, at least, his appeal has utterly worn out. He is a past master at the art of letting his supporting cast take the picture out from under his nose, as Edward Everett Horton, the Yacht Club Boys, and most of all, Cab Calloway and his band, do in this picture. If the Cab and his band had had more of a part the whole thing might have been worth seeing. As it is he appears only a few short times and you live in hopes he'll come back, despising Al Jolson...
...inspiration. This is a characteristic reaction. It provides the key to his later behavior when, installed in his uncle's Manhattan mansion and bored by the task of humbling smart alecks who mistake his lack of polish for absence of wit, he finds recreation in feeding doughnuts to cab horses, chasing fire engines and sliding down the marble banisters...