Word: dude
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Playwright Kirkland's case study in degeneracy, Hollywood has substituted a slow, sentimental account of Jeeter's aged life & times. Jeeter has one decrepit jalopy that explodes as often as the trick clowns' car in the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus. And when his son Dude (William Tracy) goes hog-wild with a brand-new Ford, the effect is of violent slapstick rather than of a moron's disregard for mechanical decency. As Jeeter's daughter Ellie May, Actress Gene Tierney had herself systematically dirtied every day. But, typically enough of Hollywood, the events...
...Fall lay in an Albuquerque hospital recovering from pneumonia, the famed 1,000,000-acre Three Rivers Ranch in New Mexico, on which Secretary Fall said he spent the $100,000 bribe which he took from Oilman Edward L. Doheny in the Teapot Dome scandal, was sold for a dude ranch...
...left for Vicksburg, settled up with his guardian, set off for the Northwest. He had no particular goal, and only one letter of introduction. A friend of his father's had remembered that in his youth in Georgia he had known a brilliant town dandy, one Dude Lewis, now supposedly out West practicing...
Young Pittman made inquiries at Seattle. Dude Lewis was well known. The slim Southerner was straightway taken in to a law office that was as luxuriously civilized as Seattle was rough and pioneer; greeted by a redhaired, red-bearded man of extreme elegance-James Hamilton Lewis, then only a dude lawyer, but soon to be a Congressman from Washington, later a Senator from Illinois...
...thin thread of continuity that runs through Hold On to Your Hats is spun of the same stuff that has gone into most theatrical satires on radio. A timid aerial star known as the Lone Rider is enticed to a Western dude ranch, confronted with real bandits who scare the chaps off him until just before the finale, when he gets the drop on them all. Jaunty at 54, still tops at putting over a song or a story, Jolson gallops triumphantly through the part of the Lone Rider, accompanied by a whole rodeo of able talent...