Word: em
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Headquarters: Stick 'em in the vault...
...uncle. He was the best man who ever lived. He always was helping somebody else. One time he found out that the young feller who tended bar at the saloon where he got his drinks was going to lose his job because he couldn't mix 'em right. Well, my uncle went down there one morning and put his foot on the brass rail and he said: 'Son, I'm agoing to stay here until you learn how to mix these drinks...
...stayed there all that day, teaching that boy and sampling the drinks, and by closing time the fellow knew how to mix 'em. That's the kind of family I come from, and I'm willing to stay here right now and advise the members of this body along good, sound constructive lines...
Rarely does the University Theater combine in one program two features with as great an entertainment value as "Star of Midnight" and "Hold 'Em Yale." The former attraction, an extremely complicated murder mystery starring that ace of detectives William Powell, joins with Damon Runyon's most recent comedy hit to offer an evening of pleasing diversion to the theatergoer. In fact, despite the general prevalence of examinations, we do not hesitate to recommend the current double bill as one of the more interesting attractions of the season...
...second feature on the program, "Hold 'Em Yale," is a hilarious comedy of the lighter sort, combining humorous dialogue with a series of extraordinary situations. Patricia Ellis is featured as the pampered young heiress who is afflicted with an ungovernable passion for men in uniform, much to the sorrow of her father, who has to foot the expensive bills for her numerous divorces. Cesar Romero plays the part of the dashing but unfaithful object of Miss Ellis's affections. The humor pervading the whole picture reaches its climax in the scene depicting the Harvard-Yale football game, won by Yale...