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Helped by a crook named Petty Louie (Hobart Cavanaugh), he enters a jewelry store, heaps all the clocks in one corner, then lets the burglar alarm function. When the Ranger guards arrive, the clocks are all crying "Cuckoo!" Next Mallory opens all the umbrellas in an umbrella shop, does similar whimsies in a dozen other Ranger-guarded stores. Nowhere does he steal anything, but always leaves a note signed "Night Key," reading: "What I create I can destroy." These extraordinary pranks draw the attention of gangsters who kidnap the old man, use his device for stealing. With the help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 26, 1937 | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...Horse and the other on Hollywood, this farce exhibits the psychological rejuvenation of a grouchy department store tycoon (Gene Lockhart) who fancies himself ready to die. Three scheming vice presidents plan to insure his life, then talk him into his grave. Hastily summoned is a moony ager.t (Hobart Cavanaugh) of Good Life Insurance Co. who observes that "Life Insurance is Immortality." finds himself the dazed recipient of commissions on a $5,000,000 policy. He makes friends with the insured, teaches him handball and health rules, brings him back from Bermuda bursting with bounce and sparkle. The schemers call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 21, 1935 | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

Died. Rev. Dr. John William Cavanaugh, 64, onetime (1905-19) president of the University of Notre Dame; of nephritis and diabetes; in South Bend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 1, 1935 | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

Genevieve Tobin is Robinson's leading lady, playing the part of a disillusioned gambler's wife. Glenda Farrell is the other woman in a triangular love affair while others in the cast include Robert Barrat. Hobart Cavanaugh and Gordon Westcott...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prospects | 3/8/1934 | See Source »

Died. Francis William ("Iron Major") Cavanaugh, 57, football coach at Fordham. Dartmouth, Boston College, Holy Cross for which he produced many a potent team during his 30-odd years in the sport; of cerebral hemorrhage and pneumonia following an operation; on his chicken farm at Marshfield, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 11, 1933 | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

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