Word: hideaway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paramount). A Manhattan gambler, hard-pressed by the police, selects a hideaway by stabbing a time table with a pencil. In the sleepy village of Glendale he comes upon a beautiful librarian who is yearning for metropolitan excitements. He decides, on the flip of a coin, to marry her, takes her back to town with him. By the time the picture is over, hardboiled Babe Stewart is no longer a gambler. Reformed by his gay little librarian, he has voluntarily served three months in jail, is in a fair way to become-for him a step up in the world...
...next afternoon Speaker Garner, snappish and irritable, found a hideaway from newsmen in Representative Warren's office at the Capitol. There he sat behind an open door for four hours, listened by radio to his own nomination. He told news cameramen he felt "too bad" to pose for them...
...sculpture prizes in Berlin, Venice, came to the U. S., got a job making models for Hollywood super-spectacles. Came the talkies and the end of such pageants, but Sculptor Katchamakoff was not disheartened. He moved to Palm Springs, desert oasis, rapidly growing as a health resort and Hollywood hideaway, there opened an art gallery, started an art school, earnestly advocated himself as Palm Springs' first mayor. Well aware of the value of publicity, Sculptor Katchamakoff flooded the U. S. press last week with photographs of his work, typed autobiographies in which he described himself as "a charming and cultured...
...blazed out its first scoop: "Negro Real Estate Man Exposes Own Son [Charles] As Abductor." Also it printed nearly a full front page of pictures of the room where the boy had been held. Next day Reporter Brundidge was following a hot tip that led to a furnished room hideaway in Kansas City. Two days later he had Charles Abernathy's confession-with a hand-written note from Abernathy to the reporter for a front-page splash. Then he led St. Louis officers to their quarry...
...brings about a reconciliation, but at the final curtain Mr. Kruger is already straining at the domestic leash, indicates that he will break away again as soon as possible. Best scene: Mr. Kruger trying to extricate himself from an embarrassing situation when his wife and a detective raid his hideaway. Room of Dreams. This play had a complicated birth-written by Daniel Coxe from a translation by James L. A. Burrell and Anne Sprague MacDonald of the original Viennese of Ernest Raoul Weiss. But polyglot parentage cannot be entirely responsible for the nonsensical finished product which ushered...