Word: carded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three Men On A Horse (Warner Brothers). Oiwin Trowbridge (Frank McHugh), the greeting-card poet, originating obscurely in the brain of John Cecil Holm, sharpened and clarified by Playwright George Abbott, has attained the gigantic stature that comes to a stage character with 96 weeks on Broadway, five road companies in the U. S., one in Australia and successful presentations in London and Paris. Oiwin's prestige made him a serious problem to Hal Walk's, Warners' production boss, and his able aide, Sam Bischoff. They owned the picture rights to the play. Warners had backed...
...sick offstage during those moments when the selections in his small black book, heavily backed by his new friends, come romping home. What happens after his return from the men's room is a four-cornered chase. Oiwin is trying to write 67 Mother's Day greeting-card orders for delivery to his employer, Mr. Carver (Guy Kibbee), Charlie, Patsy and Frankie are trying to capitalize Oiwin as a race-selector. Mr. Carver is combating the horse-players, whom he mistakes for a rival greeting-card combine, and Oiwin's wife, in Ozone Heights, is getting...
...capitalizes on its dances, relying on these profits for its funds, though the criticism is prevalent that such a method tends to cast too commercial a pallor over something that should be free from the money taint. Adams swings to the other extreme in demanding the presentation of a card, obtainable at a set price, for the use of the library and common room. In short, these houses offer dissimilar and often impractical ways and means for levying the annual tribute...
...theory this might result in Mr. Green's losing the presidency of the A. F. of L., for a man must hold a union membership card to be an officer. In practice it was little more than an insult, for it would be several months before Mr. Green could be tried and finally ousted by his original union in Coshocton, Ohio. Meanwhile, he has ample opportunity to join another A. F. of L. union, in fact is already an honorary member of the musicians' union...
Though return to the old rules was not advocated by too tremendous a majority, 792 to 433, voters rejected revision and standardization of these rules by 692 to 412. The Oxford card system found little favor as a method of revision, being snowed under by almost a 3 to 1 count...