Word: gibsonized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...says, Lillian Gibson, a Tennessee hill-girl of 15, went to school at Stump Valley, near Shelbyville, started home from school- later her teacher said she came running frantically back . . . screaming, "I am going to have a baby." This is absolutely untrue, in that this little girl does not live in the hills-not a Tennessee hill-girl. There is no such school as "Stump Valley." The teacher never made the statement that the little girl said, "I am going to have a baby." These statements are untrue...
...says, that John Gibson, the father, with a wrathful posse of 300 hillmen scoured the woods, caught the 22-year-old Negro, named E. K. Harris, accused of the rape, and took him to the Shelbyville Jail, and a hillbilly mob demanded Harris be turned over to them. These statements are untrue. . . . There was no hillbilly mob. Mr. Gibson is not a hillbilly...
...article further says: Mr. Gibson is dubbed as "Father Gibson," and says he inflamed his mountain neighbors by telling them that Dr. Moody, who is also dubbed, "a general practitioner of Shelbyville," had told him that the girl was pregnant. This is untrue...
...this year make eight Westerns, starring Tim McCoy. Universal will make six with Buck Jones and a serial called Rustlers of Red Dog. Fox. long No. 1 producer of Westerns, plans to make six, starring George O'Brien. First Division Productions will make six this year, with Hoot Gibson as their star, and World Wide will make eight with Ken Maynard...
...Western program is built around tall (6 ft., 5 in.) John Wayne, born Michael Morrison, Pasadena socialite, onetime University of Southern California footballer. His horse's name is Lightning. Dirt cheap compared to most pictures, Westerns cost from $4,000 to $30,000 each. Famed Hoot Gibson (horse: "Hooter") makes his pictures on his ranch near Hollywood wearing the championship belt he won at Pendleton Round...