Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nickel when he landed a job with the late Samuel L. (Roxy) Rothafel, who set him to fiddling in the last row of the second violin section at Broadway's Capitol Theater. Ormandy played second fiddle so well that he was soon solo violinist of the original Roxy Gang. He graduated from gangdom when the Capitol's chief conductor fell ill on the eve of a performance. Ormandy, the only musician in the place who knew the Tchaikovsky score by heart, took over on 15 minutes' notice. It was the first time in his life that...
...Hitler Gang (Robert Watson. Victor Varconi, Luis Van Rooten, Martin Kosleck, Reinhold Schunzel; TIME...
...Hitler Gang (Paramount) is a triumph of cinemakeup. With uncanny realism it recreates the physical appear ance of the Nazi bigwigs in a fascinating collection of talking waxworks. Paramount hunted high & low for Nazi doubles. The Hitler was easy. Cinemactor Robert Watson has already scared little children in that role in four pictures (The Devil with Hitler, Hitler, Dead or Alive, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The Nazi Nuisance). He practiced his earnest performance so strenuously that he wore his larynx to a frazzle. One night the neigh bors, hearing his hysterical yawpings against Jews, came over...
Herriman believed that animals are superior to human beings. He would never ride a horse. He tried to be a vegetarian, had to give it up when he became too weak. To the end of his life nearly all his ration points for meat went to satisfy the sleek gang of stray dogs and cats he took care...
...wonderfully entertaining host. William Randolph Hearst loved him. His own close friends were chiefly comic-strip artists - Hershfield, Ru dolph Dirks (The Captain and the Kids}, Jim Swinnerton (Little Jimmy), the late TAD Dorgan (Indoor Sports). His best friend was the late H. M. (Beanny) Walker, Our Gang comedies director...