Word: hobo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Square" without the aid of costumes. It is one of Anderson's greatest talents that he is able to present the deepest social and psychological problems in a modern setting. In this case Bette Davis is the daughter of a filling station owner and Leslie Howard is a refined hobo...
Arliss is Still Arliss, full of platitudes and the wise philosophy of "Mr. Hobo". It is an entirely new part for him but one either enjoys of abhors the English actor for the way he talks and what he says rather than the way he always looks when he says it. If you are not yet satiated. "Mr. Hobo" will prove amusing although the whole picture as usual is based on Arliss alone without much attention being paid to the supporting cast. His pictures would regain a lot of their popularity if they were filled in with interesting minors...
...abide him. (I was the first Rounsevell ever to drink, curse and play cards.} From an Irish grandfather he acquired "a sense of humor, a taste for good liquor, a go-to-hell attitude." At 13 he left home, became in turn a farmhand, livery stableboy. book agent, hobo, telegraph lineman, miner, carpenter, banker. In 1913 he swore off liquor, has been a teetotaler ever since. (There are few men who in 18 years enjoyed more whiskey hilarity, exhaled more whiskey halitosis, suffered more whiskey headaches or caused more whiskey heartaches and tears.) For a while he sold real estate...
...Author, A native of Brooklyn, Robert Whitcomb, 32, comes from "good stock, Yankee Americans" with a dash of Dutch. He has studied forestry, worked in a lumberyard; been a bank-runner, newshawk on a country weekly; hoboed in every State but Idaho. On a hobo trip in 1930 he met "Matt Williams," based his novel on Williams' story. Author Whitcomb has had little to invent: as a hobo and interviewer in agencies for the homeless he has talked to 10,000 unemployed. His literary gods are a queer trinity; Thoreau, Ring Lardner, D. H. Lawrence. At present Author Whitcomb...
...swimming with nothing on. A policeman ran him in, the girl's brother got a gang together and beat him up. Disillusion dawning, Uan went away from there. On a bus to Salt Lake City a stranger gypped him out of his remaining cash. Undaunted, Uan turned hobo. In adversity he discovered a few good companions : a fellow-hobo, a beautiful girl who gave him a horror of the second-rate, turned him from an art student to a hospital orderly. Gradually Uan became Americanized; his name slipped from Uan Koé to John Coe. When last seen...