Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stage Struck (Warner) depends for its punches on the kind of scene that makes critics unhappy and audiences hysterical. Such a scene is the one in which Dance Director George Randall (Dick Powell), hiding under the bed of Peggy Revere (Joan Blondell) when her onetime lover appears, has his protruding legs nipped by a Great Dane until he and the dog crawl out of the room. Less carefully tested but just as broad is the Yacht Club Boys' parody of a vaudeville tumbling act and their agreeable ditty, The Income Tax. There is some sketchy hoofing, a Harburg...
...tube and bestriding a smoky factory, with clouds in the shape of chemical retorts. Inscription: "The Pittsburgh Award to Andrew W. Mellon-For Outstanding Service to Chemistry. American Chemical Society, Pittsburgh Section." A similar award made posthumously to Brother Richard Beatty Mellon was received by his son, Richard King ("Dick") Mellon...
...signal drill, Dick Harlow continues to look over three equally ranked elevens, trying out various combinations...
Deciding on a transatlantic flight. Crooner Richman had a special Wright Cyclone engine installed in his smgle-motored $95,000 Vultee monoplane Lady Peace. For a co-pilot he picked Eastern Air Lines' No. 1 Flyer Henry Tindall ("Dick"') Merrill, who has flown 2,000,000 miles without injury, last year made news by flying a plane from the U. S. to Chile to aid the overpublicized search for Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth (TIME, Jan. 27). A slight. 39-year-old bachelor. Pilot Merrill does not smoke or drink but has a weakness for perfume. When flying, he usually...
...hole in the ground, which borrowed $250,000 more, paid it back from earnings in less than two years and by 1934 was paying $2,000,000 a year in dividends. Several other mines have had smaller but equally brilliant records, accompanied by tales of Tom-Dick-&-Harry made rich overnight...