Word: hat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vincent Youmans was born, not many more than 30 years ago, within wailing distance of Broadway's Tin Pan Alley. His father made hats. A hat he made for oldtime Impresario Oscar Hammerstein now reposes in the cornerstone of the Manhattan Theatre, where Through the Years is playing...
Composer Youmans was slated for the hat business himself when the War lifted him out of Yale and put him in the Navy. From the Navy he went to the music publishing house of Remick, then to Harms. His first complete score was done for Two Little Girls in Blue (1921). Followed Wild flower ("Bambalina"), No, No Nanette ("Tea for Two"), Lollipop, Smiles, Oh Please, Rainbow ("The One Girl"), Great Day ("Without a Song"). Laurence Stallings and Oscar Hammerstein II wrote the libretto and lyrics for Rainbow, which ran into hard luck until Hollywood got hold of it. Through...
...parents of the girl he wished to marry, who made himself rich by putting them in a comic strip. Earthy, rude nouveaux riches, Jiggs & Maggie became famed in song, story, burlesque. Probably on this account is the story apocryphal. No vulgarian (red vest, shock of red hair, silk hat) could be as preposterous as Jiggs; no scowling, tight-lipped lady as savage as Maggie. Nevertheless, U. S. masses have for many years followed their somewhat stylized activities, which consist chiefly in family strife and almost invariably end with Maggie pelting Jiggs with crockery. Throughout the U. S. are lunchrooms...
Fellow inmates, judges, lawyers, officials of the institution and a jollier brother, Capt. Eugene Nutter, 75, who had come from Gouldsboro, Me., asked them to make friends. Instead, Capt. Fred Nutter scowled sadly at his brother in the court; Capt. Edgar Nutter hid his face with his hat. A patient magistrate dismissed the case. Capt. Fred Nutter strolled out the front door. Capt. Edgar Nutter, too proud to follow him, went out the side...
Union Depot (Warner). Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is an alert hobo who, after stealing a hat and coat from a men's washroom, reconnoitres in the station until he has a good suit of clothes, a roll of bills and a girl. His tramp companion picks up a parcel check which Fairbanks cashes for a violin case full of counterfeit money. Detectives looking for the counterfeiter find Fairbanks, when he is helping his girl to rid herself of a perverse admirer who wears dark glasses and a crippled foot. Eventually Fairbanks clears himself, but not until the counterfeiter, trying to retrieve...