Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...point of fact, A Midsummer Night's Dream is by no means as bad as it might have been. The monotonous howlings of 10-year-old Mickey Rooney as Puck, the fatuous grinnings of Dick Powell and Ross Alexander, as the lovers bemused by his potions; the spectacle of Joe E. Brown cracking lichee nuts in a manner derived from Once in a Lifetime, as he impersonates Flute, the bellows-mender; and the over-energetic jabberings of James Cagncy as Bottom, the weaver, effectively combine to detract from the real merits of the production. Omitting much of the superb...
Shipmates Forever (Warner), one more evidence of the fatal fascination which the Navy has for the cinema industry in general and Warner Brothers in particular, exhibits Dick Powell as a partially reformed night-club crooner struggling through Annapolis to win the acclaim of his father (Lewis Stone) and his girl (Ruby Keeler). Songs: I Love to Take Orders from You; I Love to Listen to Your Eyes...
...angry cow-ponies, he failed to last the minimum ten seconds in his first six attempts. Less daring than Brooklyn's famed matador, Sidney Frumkin (Sidney Franklin), Cowboy Schneider has tried riding steers but never wrestled one. Leading contestants after the event was a week old were Bulldogger Dick Shelton -once invited by the late Tex Rickard to become a prizefighter with coaching by Jack Dempsey-who threw a steer in 10 seconds; Trick Rider Tad Lucas, who designs her own costumes, makes $12,000 a year, uses Black Narcissus perfume...
...joint luncheon for the Dartmouth team and for present and past members of the Varsity Club will be served there on Friday, October 25. Coach Dick Harlow and Bhaun Kelly will speak after lunch...
...there is any substitution, it will probably be made because Dick Harlow finds himself dissatisfied with the offensive abilities of his team. In such a case the first change is likely to come in the backfield with such sparkplugs as the gifted Freddy Moseley ranking high as possible replacements...