Word: following
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doubt it is partly the glitter of its memorable predecessors that dulls this version of MGM's big annual musical. Unhappily and obviously, another reason is the remembered rather than memorable elements in its story: the routine of a leading character leaving home to follow a horse, first used in Broadway Bill (Columbia, 1934); the George Murphy-Eleanor Powell dance in Central Park, the interrupting rainstorm and their going into a pavilion for shelter, all copied almost without change from Top Hat (RKO, 1935); finally, the curious parallel between Star Gazer's reaction to Charles Igor Gorin singing...
...living with his five-year-old son Tyler. He sent the child out for a walk with his nurse. Down from the sky slipped an airplane carrying his onetime good friend, Washington Columnist Drew Pearson and Mrs. Pearson, divorced wife of Mr. Abell, mother of the child. They had followed Mr. Abell from the U. S. when they learned he had left through Canada contrary to a court order giving him six months custody of Tyler in the U. S. Mr. & Mrs. Pearson snatched the child up and flew him back to London. There they remained with...
...Beach, the 35,000 summer residents of Ocean Grove go without ice cream, soda pop, postcards, films and newspapers on Sunday. Ocean Grove is the only dry community on the North Jersey coast, and in 1926 the late John Philip Sousa, concert touring, incurred its permanent displeasure by playing Follow the Swallow after he had been told a march called Wets & Drys would be inacceptable...
...promised to order the Commodity Credit Corporation to make loans of 9? or 10 ? a lb. on the new crop, pay farmers the difference between what they eventually get for their cotton and 12? a lb. Similar means will be taken to meet any serious price declines which may follow anticipated bumper crops in corn & other grains...
...Will Rogers used to say that the best way to find an airport was to follow a high tension line. This accident was caused by a distribution wire, not high tension...