Word: cues
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This dramatic match last week ended 14 successive days of caroms, draw shots and four-cushion banks at Chicago's Sherman Hotel. Defending Champion Johnny Layton, a 3-to-1 favorite to repeat, fell behind at the start. When he met Hoppe, a fly zoomed on his cue ball, rested comfortably while Layton fidgeted. When the fly took flight, Layton fumbled, let Hoppe beat him for the first time in tournament competition. 50-to-49. Finally Cochran, toppled only by Arthur Thurnblad, 1931's winner, faced Hoppe, his onetime U. S. touring partner, previously beaten by Allen Hall...
...Adams (Peter Pan, The Little Minister) swept into a Manhattan courtroom to defend herself in a prosaic $200,000 lawsuit. Carried away with the scene, the World-Telegram reported: "The courtroom was crowded with staidly gowned women and mustachioed old gentlemen. . . . On November 6, 1905, Peter Pan's cue line, spoken in the nursery, read: 'Dear night light, that protects my sleeping babes, burn clear and steadfast tonight.' . . . Today an attorney said: 'Miss Adams, will you take the stand, please...
...Riley. Fat pencil in hand, he's the man who has put such people as Lowell Thomas, Ruth Etting, and the NBC Honeymooners on the air. His job is not performed at the microphone. His pencil may cross out one of Lowell Thomas lines. When the orchestra gets its cue for one of Ruth Etting's songs, Tom Riley, late of the University of Kentucky, is the man who penciled it in. Mr.Riley, in short, is a producer at NBC, one of the gentlemen who is as important to radio as Flo Zicfeld was to the Follics...
...derived from two scenes in one of which Comedian Joe Brown, as Comedian Joe Wilson, is locked out of his dressing room by mistake on his opening night and is compelled to pay $20 to a ticket scalper to get into the theatre in time for his entrance cue. The other occurs when he discovers his true feelings for his wife just after he has written her a letter telling of his love for the fickle heiress and is forced to chase half way across the country in an effort to intercept it. To tall Arthur Treacher, playing the part...
...week three U. S. Circuit Courts of Appeal, second highest in the land, passed on the constitutionality of three prime New Deal measures, cleared the path to final judgment by the Supreme Court. Two measures went on their way with court curses, one with a blessing. AAA. Taking its cue from the Supreme Court, the first Federal Circuit Court in Boston found AAA's vital processing taxes as illegal as NRA's codes, and for the same reasons. A U. S. District Court had rejected the suit of receivers for Hoosac Mills Corp, to escape payment...