Word: hal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tour the Orpheum circuit as a boxer, did pick-&-shovel work in Montana mines, returned to Hollywood, where a chance meeting with Director Tod Browning got him into the cinema industry. That was in 1918. Two years later, McCarey got a job as gag man and writer for Hal Roach which he held for a decade. In 1933 he went to Paramount, earned a place as one of the industry's top-notch directors with Ruggles of Red Gap, Make Way for Tomorrow. In 1937 The Awful Truth won him the Academy Prize for direction, an RKO contract...
Concerned with nothing more than the romantic meeting and somewhat prolonged courtship of a European fortune hunter (Charles Boyer) and a Kansas-bred nightclub singer (Irene Dunne), it frequently falters in pace. It also includes a few sequences which, reminiscent of Director McCarey's work for Hal Roach, are among the most adroit cinematic touches of the year. Good shot: Irene Dunne, prevented from getting married to Boyer when a car cripples her legs, waking up to fave the consequences in a hospital...
Fighting with Captain Batchelder in the sabre division today will be Joe Doyle and Tom Wright, assisted by Art Jaros, Cranston Jones, and Al Labastic in the foils. Holding down the epee positions are Bill Coach, Ames Murphy, and Hal Park...
...squad will represent the Crimson in Eliland. Coach Hal Ulen, Captain Rusty Greenhood, Captain-elect Eric Cutler, Jim Curwen, Frannie Powers, Chet Sagenkahn, and Ed Hewitt departed yesterday afternoon and are determined to return to Cambridge with a large collection of League titles to make up for the defeats suffered at the hands of Princeton and Yale...
Jumping into the lead in the final minute of play on a basket by Hal Lubchansky, the Harvard Jayvee basketball team concluded a fairly successful season by handing a 43 to 41 defeat to the Yale Junior Varsity quintet in a closely contested game in New Haven Saturday night...