Word: davids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nothing Sacred (David O. Selznick) is a spirited little comedy about a girl who is slowly dying of radium poisoning. It is a comedy because Hazel Flagg (Carole Lombard) and Dr. Downer (Charles Winninger), her Warsaw, Vt. physician, know that she isn't really dying at all. But by the time Downer finds he has made a mistake in his diagnosis, the story about Hazel has appeared in the New York Morning Star. Reporter Wally Cook (Fredric March) takes her away from Warsaw. He is in trouble with his managing editor (Walter Connolly) and Hazel is his peace offering...
...three days last week the cagiest David Harums of the U. S. milled around a rectangular tanbark enclosure on Manhattan's Squadron A Armory, squinting knowingly as 226 harness horses were trotted or paced, one by one, up & down the narrow track. Walking sticks flashed in the air as bids were raised again & again and the raucous-voiced auctioneer pounded his gavel, announced the buyers. Thus was sold $206,000 worth of U. S. horseflesh at the 43rd annual Old Glory Sale, capping the most successful year in the history of U. S. harness racing...
Back in Manhattan they formed a committee which enlisted such distinguished names as those of Photographer Arnold Genthe, Director Philip N. Youtz of the Brooklyn Museum, Poet Lincoln Kirstein, Choreographer Leon Leonidoff, Connoisseur Julien Levy, Designer Donald Oenslager, Publisher W. W. Norton, Critic John Martin, Radioman David Sarnoff. Patrons Edward M. M. Warburg and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt. Third in command was Miss Anne Morgan, J. P. Morgan's impressive sister and Sculptor Hoffman's longtime friend. With this backing,.Dance International steamed ahead to hold a competition among U. S. painters and sculptors, supplementing European and Oriental...
...year Philadelphia undertakers spend $175,000 of their clients' money for paid death notices in the city's four biggest papers. Just as regularly the Bulletin, Ledger and Inquirer divide $75,000 of this revenue while a $100,000 lump goes to the Record, mouthpiece of Julius David Stern, sonorous Jewish crusader for the New Deal in Philadelphia, New York and Camden...
Fish was only one of a large group of notables who are attending or have submitted papers to the Conference. Others include Adolph A. Berle, Jr., Bruce Bliven, Edwin M. Borchard, Clyde Eagleton, Phillip Jessup, William Potter Lage '30, Nathaniel Peffer, David Sarnoff, and George Sylvester Viereck. Papers by Borchard, Eagleton, Lage, Peffer, Sarnoff, and Viereck were read yesterday in addition to Fish...