Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meet the Missus (RKO); Victor Moore washing dishes while Helen Broderick breezes through the Happy Noodles Housewives' Contest...
...Ingalls had four exams last week, which gave the big righthander slight chance to rest, while Lupien had a gainful tooth infection, keeping him from sleep. Because of an examination Thursday afternoon, Dick Grondahl was unable to play in the first contest with Dartmouth, and Dave Shean was one of the lineup Saturday with the grippe. Fort several weeks Art Johns has been troubled first with a spiked heel and then with a trick knee which has slowed the second saoker down considerably...
Previously the exuberant collegiates had engaged in a contest of throwing each other's clothes out of the window to the sidewalk. Soon after their loap from the first-floor window, their uncharitable host locked up for the night, leaving them the objects of a water barrage from Lowell and Leverett...
Pick a Star (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) slapsticks the story of the sweet young girl who makes good in Hollywood. In Waterloo, Kans., pretty Cecilia Moore (Rosina Lawrence) wins a beauty contest managed by her boy friend Joe Jenkins (Jack Haley) only to find that the prize money has been stolen. Chagrined to see her humiliated, Joe journeys to Hollywood to try to land her a film job. But the forced landing of an American Airlines plane at Waterloo gives screenstruck Cecilia her chance to meet Cinemactor Rinaldo Lopez (Mischa Auer), fly out to the Coast with him and her noisy...
...bitter contest between two potent oldsters General Evangeline Booth, 71, and Commissioner Henry W. Mapp; 67-to control the world-wide Salvation Army flared up again last week for perhaps the last time. Tall, ruddy Henry Mapp came within the orbit of the Booth dynasty in India 50 years ago, when he joined the Army under Commissioner Edward Booth-Tucker, son-in-law of Founder William Booth. Mapp moved upward alone, to become the Army's Chief-of-Staff, administrator of some 26,000 officers and candidate for its Generalship when General Edward John Higgins made ready to retire...