Word: hart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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FOCH-Capt. B. H. Liddell Hart-Lit-tle, Brown...
...Riders of the Purple Sage" is in the William S. Hart tradition, which means that it is not to be sniffed at by anyone but a pedant. The south-western scenery is splendid, and you should be able to lose yourself very pleasantly in watching it and remembering last summer out west. Ignore the story; watch placidly as the hardriding Mr. O'Brien jumps his canyons, but don't try to bridge the chasms in the plot. This approach will be understood by all true devotees of the primeval horse-opera...
...Little Racketeer was first a German comedy, then it was set to music, now it has been translated, generally revamped with lyrics by one who can write them almost as well as Lorenz Hart: Edward Eliscu. For their production the Brothers Shubert have retained the services of a number of comely girls, some Albertina Rasch dancers with wooly heads, and Queenie Smith. Ingenuous, flaxen-haired Miss Smith is the waif who insinuates herself into people's homes, makes a livelihood from the food, drink, tips they give her. A Little Racketeer is concerned with one instance in which this cozzening...
...Naval Research Laboratory. At the laboratory a squad of marines fired several rifle bullets into the box. Then an expert, working with mirrors and long implements from behind an iron shield, pried the lid open. They found the box packed full of small white tablets. Next day Claudius Hart Huston, onetime G. O. P. chairman, revealed that he had sent the tablets?a new form of concentrated heat?on behalf of an inventor friend who wanted an opinion on their marketability from encyclopedic Julius Klein...
...Newark. N. J., Joseph Hart and Otto Petrin Jr., both 15, played-they were gamblers. Joe had a toy gun, Otto had a loaded revolver. They tried to see who could draw his gun first. The game grew spirited. Otto's gun went off, shot Joe dead...