Word: hitchcock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...IMPORTANCE OF LIVING - Lin -Reynal & Hitchcock...
...Girl Was Young (Gaumont British). Cinema's top man for melodrama is England's roly-poly, impish-eyed Director Alfred Hitchcock (The 39 Steps, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Secret Agent). Last year, flushed with cinema success and much hearty beef-eating, Director Hitchcock decided to try one of his thrillers against the placid background of the English countryside. Said he: "I want to commit murder amid babbling brooks." The result teams 18-year-old Nova Pilbeam and Play Actor Derrick de Marney in a melodramatic hodge-podge that lacks the vivid outlines and clear characterizations...
...IMPORTANCE OF LIVING-Lin Yutang-Reynal & Hitchcock...
...Upped Texas Cowboy Cecil Smith from a nine to a ten-goal (highest possible) handicap. Other ten-goalers: Tommy Hitchcock Jr., Stewart Iglehart...
Much credit for that World-Herald prosperity falls to Henry Doorly, who migrated from Barbados to Nebraska as a Union Pacific surveyor, married Margaret Hitchcock in 1903. As a reporter, Mr. Doorly kept his job only because he was the publisher's daughter's fiance, but he struck his stride as a want-ad salesman, quickly became advertising and then business manager. In nine years the paper was in the black and since 1912 has made money every year, multiplying enemies but losing no ground when it deserted staunch Senator Hitchcock's time-honored Democratic partisanship...