Word: hawaii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...officer & gentleman of the U. S. Army may proceed by rote from West Point to the grave. His future is assured by the God and Manual of Arms. For him: field duty, a tour in Washington, assignment to the Philippines, Hawaii, China, or some domestic doghouse, and always the crawl up the promotion lists from lieutenant to captain to major, perhaps to a colonelcy or even to the final glory of a general's stars. For his wife: the same, plus a lifetime with other army wives. How some of them live was told last week in a whitewashed...
...thrifty Movie Producer Jed Buell this crack of a subordinate was intended as a reproof. Instead it gave him an idea. Soon he was collecting all the midgets he could reach through agencies, advertisements, radio broadcasts ("big salaries for little people"). They drifted in by twos and threes. From Hawaii came a troupe of 14. At length he had 60 of them, averaging three-feet-eight in height, about 70 Ibs., ranging in age from 19 to 65. Meanwhile, his writers turned out a script for a "rollickin', rootin', tootin', shootin' drama of the Great Outdoors...
...Philippines, Hawaii, Alaska and every one of the 48 U. S. States are members of the Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (which now includes the George Washington Brigade) of Leftist Spain. Total membership of the Friends is about 25,000, all paying annual dues of $1, and many contributing more besides. About 3,500 are blood relatives of the jaunty "Abies and Georgies" who in devil-may-care brown berets are fighting the Spanish Rightists. The Friends have been collecting about $15,000 per month, last week launched a campaign to raise $50,000 per month from...
...told. Whenever a Buck Jones picture goes out, it has an audience of 3,500,000 youngsters waiting for it- cinema's biggest fan club, the Buck Jones Rangers. They proudly wear badges, shrill the praises of Buck and his 25-year-old horse, Silver, from Maine to Hawaii...
...What worries Producer Lesser is that Bobby's voice will not be soprano long. In consequence he frequently records Bobby's songs far in advance of production, so that no Lesser picture, once started, will have to be scrapped should Bobby turn baritone overnight. In Hawaii Calls Bobby's voice holds up; it is the picture that takes the queer turns...