Word: guyness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paramount), a collection of specialty acts by radio entertainers, might have been much more satisfactory if its producers had not insisted on incorporating them into a story. Any narrative framework designed to include Amos 'n' Andy, Ray Noble, Ethel Merman, Henry Wadsworth, Lyda Roberti, Burns & Allen, Sir Guy Standing, Mary Boland, Charles Ruggles, Jack Oakie, Ina Ray Hutton and her Melodears, Wendy Barrie, Bing Crosby, the Vienna Choir Boys and Bill Robinson could scarcely be distinguished for its spontaneity. The device which shackles them together in The Big Broadcast is a "tele-radio" set in which Oakie...
...funniest parts of The Politician are consequently the quotations from the politicians themselves: A speech on the protective tariff, delivered by onetime (1925-31) Senator Guy Despard Goff of West Virginia, in which the tariff is pictured as touching hillsides, causing the waters of commercial prosperity to flow, illuminating the valleys, making furnace flames to kiss mountain tops, evoking sweet music from factories, preserving the American home, the schoolhouse and the dignity of labor, turns out in cold type to be so wild a collection of exaggerations and banalities as to make the broadest parody an understatement...
...about 700 owners and breeders of trotters and four times as many trainers, second trainers, grooms and stable boys. Compared to thoroughbred racing, the economics of harness racing are small-scale. Greyhound, outstanding harness racer of the year, has earned $27,000, while Discovery has been earning $64,000. Guy McKinney, trotting's biggest money win ner for a single season, won $60,000 in 1926, compared to Gallant Fox's $308.000 in 1930. At the Fasig-Tipton Old Glory sales of yearling trotters held each autumn in New York City, prices average about one half those...
...helped to convict and whose arrest and trial he has covered with breath-taking efficiency, is meant to afford the denouement of the film and, handled with more care, it might have been an exceedingly effective melodramatic twist. Unfortunately, Authors Tim Whelan (who also directed the film) and Guy Bolton built up to it poorly through the earlier portions of the picture, which develop Grey's romance with the director of the Star's "Lovelorn Column" (Virginia Bruce). The Murder Man is consequently only a little better than the average popgun and city-room mystery play, distinguished mainly...
Married. Lady Daphne Finch-Hatton, 21, daughter of Sir Guy Montagu George Finch-Hatton. 14th Earl of Winchilsea and Earl of Nottingham; and Whitney Straight, 22, Manhattan socialite automobile racer; in London, four days after the marriage of her brother, Viscount Maidstone, to Countess Gladys Széchényi (TIME, July...