Word: hobo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, near the Central Park Zoo, another hobo suggested to Ludwig Metterer that they "go over to the elephant house and have some fun." They yanked Elephant Chang's tail. Elephant Chang trumpeted loudly. Arrested for disorderly conduct, Ludwig Metterer denied the charge, said his companion (who escaped) had offered to teach him how to pull elephant's tails...
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., so long the victim of feeble plots, emerges in "Union Depot," now playing at the University, as a thoroughly likeable and resourceful young hobo to prove for the first time that the promise he showed in "Dawn Patrol" justified his promotion to stardom. "Union Depot", which, as the name implies, takes as its setting the terminal of a great metropolis, affords him a part for which he is well suited. Doug starts the day with his pal as a well-bearded young vagrant recently released from "the jug". By discovering a travelling salesman's suitcase, which provides...
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...
...Depot are magnificently suited to cinematic 'expression. Fast, brief, unlikely and compact, this one is almost over before you remember to take your coat off. When you leave the theatre, you realize that you have been fooled, which is the purpose of such entertainments. Good shot: Fairbanks and his hobo companion (Guy Kibbee) walking along the track on which Joan Blondell's train for Salt Lake City is quickly disappearing...
With interest I note in your issue of Nov. 23 a statement made by James" J. Harrington to the effect that Northwestern University had made a hobo of his son. And yet the same story sets forth the information that not the University, but Mr. Harrington himself, had given this youngster a $3,000 automobile! I graduated from Northwestern, and in four years there (the expensive years of 1919-23), my total expenses were less than the cost of above-mentioned automobile by several hundred dollars...