Word: earl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Besides these four, the Blue is also blessed with a good crop of Sophomore backs. Tommy Curtin and Jerry Roscoe shape up unusually well, while Dick Cummins and Kim Whitehead, also 1936, combine with Mal Watson, Sid Towle, Earl Nikkel, and Danny Lynch to round out a fairly large backfield squad." TIME...
Murder at the Vanities (by Earl Carroll & Rufus King; music & lyrics by Edward Heyman & Richard Myers). During a matinee of the eleventh edition of the celebrated Vanities, a chorus girl abruptly stops kicking her neat legs and begins to scream. In the orchestra pit the music dwindles discordantly to silence. Directors and managers rush out to investigate. Cause of the disturbance is a pretty girl who, cradled on a rack of scenery pipes, is soon let down on the stage and found to be dead. Although attired in one of the production's costumes, she does not belong...
Thus begins Earl Carroll's current show, a melange of melody and melodrama. Thriller Author Rufus King (Murder by the Clock, Somewhere in This House) has not concocted a murder mystery which would stand on its own scarey merits. Producer Carroll has not provided quite so lavish a treat for playgoing eyes and ears as in past years. But the combined Carroll-King offering does entertain...
Radio took the injunction without loud protest, proceeded to gather its own news as it saw fit. NBC and Columbia publicity staffs both are manned by seasoned newshawks. NBC's smart Vice President Frank Earl Mason, onetime president of Hearst's International News Service, applied wire service methods to the long distance telephone, got fast, adequate coverage of big news for his chain. Columbia went at it somewhat more elaborately, organized a system of correspondents in the 90 cities dotted by CBS stations...
Died, Henry Maurice John Petty-Fitzmaurice, Earl of Kerry, 19, heir to the West England estates and eleven titles of his father, the sixth Marquess of Lansdowne; when he fell in front of a subway train; in London. He made news three years ago when a London bookie retracted (apparently to save him from expulsion from Eton) a story that he had won $200,000 on the races...