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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attenuated plot, writes a wavering finis to Wheeler-Woolsey film comedy. The cinema first paired Robert Woolsey and Bert Wheeler in 1929 in Rio Rita. Since then they have been teamed in a dozen or more comedies, hitting their stride with pictures like Half Shot at Sunrise, Hold 'Em Jail, Hips, Hips, Hooray, skidding badly of late with Silly Billies, Mummy's Boys. Goggled, gaunt, aging Robert Woolsey completed High Flyers with a fever of 102, a doctor and nurse in attendance, has been ordered into retirement for at least a year. On his own again, younger, fresh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

When James Dalhover walked into our store the third time, not the second time, he addressed his question to me but before I could answer, Walter Walsh told him to "Stick 'em up." Dalhover never fired although I believe it was his first intention to do so and slowly put his hands up. He was marched to the rear of the store where Inspector Hayes put the cuffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 8, 1937 | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...students in the bureau, which began Sunday and will continue until Friday, November 5. By no means a joy ride, according to Maxwell Halsey, assistant director of the Bureau, the trip wil mean 13-hour-a-day work for the students. "When they come back it'll take 'em two or three days to recover!" predicted Mr. Halsey grimly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Street Traffic Students Operate Driver Testing Machines at Automobile Show | 10/28/1937 | See Source »

Reidy--Give 'em both barrels on this next statement, Larry. Chin up, chest out, eyes flashing righteous fire...

Author: By John J. Reldy jr., | Title: Kelley Continues Modestly As Ever In Second Episode | 10/19/1937 | See Source »

Some o' 'em 're still stirrin apple butter. But most o' us ain't done no stirrin since Aunt Tillie cought Uncle Jake sneakin in fer a second look at Little Egypt at th' Chicago World's Fair BSR (Before Sally Rand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 11, 1937 | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

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