Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Surrender (Fox). In Surrender Director William K. Howard takes his camera into a German castle, shows what happened there during the War. The owner, a German count approaching dotage, plays with toy soldiers. The castle is near a prison camp run by a captain who wears a black bandage over one side of his face, who blows his brains out when the War is over. The most pleasant thing that happens is a love affair between a French prisoner (Warner Baxter) and the fiancee of the count's son (Leila Hyams). This nearly turns out badly. Baxter tries...
...Western champion that year. Paul Downing (now vice president and general manager of Pacific Gas & Electric) captained it at right tackle. He never lost a minute with time out all season. Jule B. Frankenheimer (now a San Francisco physician) at left half did a shift that delighted Coach Walter Camp. Jackson Eli Reynolds (now president of First National Bank of the City of New York) played the other half while William Harrelson (now vice president of Bank of America) barked signals at quarter. Charles Marron Fickert (prosecutor in the famed Mooney-Billings case) and Joel Yancy Field (now ranching...
...Lampoon staff, made $2,000 by gathering signatures at 10 cents each on petitions for the Presidential nomination of Woodrow Wilson. He was graduated from Columbia in 1913, worked as a free lance advertising solicitor, made money in the War by soliciting advertising for all of the military camp papers in the East. Afterward he organized an agency to handle circulation for Current Opinion, Le Bon Ton, Popular Radio. Ten years ago, with the late crippled Author William Andrew Johnston (Limpy), longtime editor of the New York Sunday World, he started Dell Publishing Co. Their first publications were 10 cents...
...pirates, 500 mi. southwest of Panama. There last week paused the yacht Camargo, carrying Julius Fleischmann, yeast scion, his wife & two small children and three friends on a two-year cruise of the world. To their astonishment the Fleischmann party found signs of life ashore, discovered the abandoned camp of three shipwrecked sailors whose yawl West Wind sailed from San Diego last December. A note stated that the castaways had struck into the interior 48 hr. earlier in search of food because they had exhausted the supply of coconuts near the beach, and that they would return about...
Prime novelty of last year's concert season was the Don Cossack Russian Male Chorus (TIME, Nov. 17). The Don Cossacks, singers in a regiment stranded eleven years ago in a Bolshevik prison camp, won every U. S. audience which heard them with their perfect unity, their stunning crescendos, their fragile pianissimos. The U. S. likes its music obviously defined. The Don Cossacks sing very loudly or very softly, very high and very low. Boxofficially their short tour was last season's outstanding success. Last week from Manhattan they began a second tour. From New England...