Word: feuds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Winchell-Bernie feud has hardly been improved by having been filmed in "Wake Up and Live". Walter and Ben exhibit much animosity for each other, but spoil the effect by billing and cooing in the climax...
Wake Up and Live (Twentieth Century-Fox) preserves for posterity, at one & the same time, the amiable radio feud between Columnist Walter Winchell and Bandleader Ben Bernie, and the uplift message of the best-seller by Dorothea Brande, from which it takes its title. That this almost impudently daring tour de force turns out to be wholly successful is due to shrewd manipulations by Producer Kenneth MacGowan and to a narrative by Screenwriters Curtis Kenyon. Jack Yellen and Harry Tugend which for sheer ingenuity is possibly the season's high...
...District Attorney sought in vain for some more serious motive than the small-town newspaper feud which had been developing since jovial, backslapping, man-of-the-world McCracken went to Alturas three years ago and shortly afterward started his mimeographed daily in opposition to the 42-year-old printed weekly which motherly Mrs. French edits...
...feud had begun harmlessly enough. McCracken in the Mail twitted the Frenches with having failed to pay their light bill, having the current shut off. Once he sent Mrs. French an anonymous letter ridiculing the Plaindealer. She took it to the sheriff. Then one day Mrs. French printed a story about a Mr. & Mrs. McCracken being arrested in Reno on narcotics charges. McCracken retaliated by printing stories of various persons named French being arrested for various crimes. The afternoon before the shooting he printed one about a man named French being hanged as a horse-thief in Montana...
Also, Publisher O'Hara had a chance to pay off some rankling old scores, for back of this realignment of Providence papers lay a long and bitter feud. Last March, a Pawtucket city official threw a Journal camera into the flooded Blackstone River. For reasons of their own, Pawtucket politicians had insisted on building the new City Hall on a low-lying lot, and they did not want their location photographed with water creeping over it. Also in March, Walter O'Hara sued the Journal for $1,000,000 for libel because it intimated that he was working...