Word: chase
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gossip is Sylvia (Ilka Chase), a gabby troublemaker who has her children by Caesarean section, preserves her bosom with applications of icewater and camphor, cheats on her husband and lands in Reno. About half the more prominent members of The Women's, dramatis personae land there with her in Act II. There they meet an indelible character named the Countess de Lage (Margaret Douglass). The Countess has married three fortune-hunters and a Reno cowhand, and she still puts her faith in "l'Amour." Mary Haines, hoping until the last that her husband will call her back, succeeds...
Last September Manhattan's big, busy J. Walter Thompson advertising agency launched its star account, Standard Brands, on a new radio venture. The Chase & Sanborn (coffee) division of Standard Brands had scored heavily on the air with Major Bowes and his amateurs. Then Walter P. Chrysler bought the Major away, at a time when many admen thought his peak of popularity was passed (TIME, June 22). It was up to the Thompson agency to top radio's top show in a year when novelty and unusual program ideas were being demanded in no uncertain terms by broadcast sponsors...
Near Somerville, N. J. one day last month Trooper William A. Turnbull of New Jersey's State Police sighted a blue sedan scorching down the highway, gave chase, forced the speeders to stop. While he was arguing with the driver, another man and a woman got out of the automobile, poked pistols in his back. In the car they stripped, bound and wrapped him in a blanket, drove 50 miles to a spot near Bethlehem, Pa. where they dumped him out with his wrists bound, lips taped...
...daily pay envelopes from the comfortable inertia of WPA work. Bad characters are smeared in charcoal black, heroes and heroines arrayed in magic garments of daring and beauty, playing a game of desperate designs upon a landscape lonely, hostile and magnificent. Its technique is the technique of the chase. Through most of its turbulent length it is excitingly devised, brilliantly photographed and filled to overflowing with Nick Carter characters who suddenly take on larger-than-life proportions, as if sculptured by Rodin...
RICH LAND, POOR LAND-Stuart Chase -Whittlesey House...