Word: cecil
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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...
...freighter West Mahwah of the Pacific Argentine Brazil Line has lately been held in San Juan, P. R., by a crew strike (TIME, Nov. 9). One night last week it finally cleared the harbor. Few days later, into the office of U. S. District Attorney A. Cecil Snyder marched four ragged youths, three of them Puerto Ricans, the fourth a 16-year-old from Washington, D. C. named Rothwell Burke. Filing complaints against the West Mahwah, young Burke and two of his companions signed affidavits to the following story...
...Junior Varsity game, Harvard came close to victory when Harry Alexandre slipped two goals into the net in the early part of the game. Yale tied the count, and then Captain Cecil Arrowsmith, kept the Crimson in the running by tallying another goal. In the last period the Elis tied the score once more and then took the lead on a complicated series of passes which resulted in the final score...
...formed the 1924 Notre Dame line, one was Noble Kizer, currently coach at Purdue. Last Saturday, in the week's big game, Purdue's strength was a backfield whose average progress this season has been seven yards per play and two of whose members, John Drake and Cecil Isbell, according to Coach Kizer, were abler than any of the "Four Horsemen." Fordham's strength was a line nicknamed the "Seven Blocks of Granite," who had permitted their goal to be crossed only twice this year and who, according to Coach Crowley, were even stronger than the "Seven...
Bridgewater Teachers defeated the Junior Varsity soccer team 4-3 in a game played on the Business School Field yesterday morning. Harry Alexandre scored the first Crimson goal while Cecil Arrowsmith kicked the other...