Word: homespuns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...syndicate work, Rhymester Guest has for the past four years boarded a sleeper every Monday night, awakened in Chicago next morning to broadcast verse and chit-chat for Household Finance Corp. Last October he, his wife and daughter went to Hollywood where he was to make three homespun pictures for Universal. He waited around three months while the company tried to whip together a story suitable to it and him. Meantime, Universal was not only Daying Guest's salary but $1,200 a week toll charges so that he could broadcast from his Chicago outlet. "My parents always told...
...some nine hours on the stage in the course of the Ring production. Tenor Melchior made his Metropolitan debut the afternoon of Feb. 17, 1926. But a few hours later he was almost forgotten when Marion Talley first appeared on the same stage, won front-page headlines as a homespun Missouri miss who at 19 was deemed worthy of opera. The Talley bubble soon burst, while Melchior went on to be known as the Great Dane, partly because of his artistic prowess, partly because of his bulk (250 lb.). In Denmark Melchior ranks as a national hero. He was brought...
...result was the part of Sade in Vic and Sade, a homespun daily sketch now three years old on NBC. Bernadine is also appearing with Eddie Guest in Welcome Valley over NBC. By way of variety, she once cross-fired with Ben Bernie...
Swarming into their provincial capital at Edmonton last week, breezy, homespun Alberta citizens witnessed a low-hat, soft-collared inauguration exactly to their taste. Some of the legislators present were in sweaters. None of their wives ventured evening dress. The King's representative, Lieut.-Governor William Legh Walsh, who once grubbed for gold as a Yukon prospector, appeared in a grey suit and blue shirt to induct as Premier the mystically magnetic Calgary High School principal whose year-old Social Credit Party has just smashed all others in Alberta, winning 56 out of a possible 63 seats...
...theory that the U. S. screen needs more pictures dealing with home life, homespun Producer Carl Laemmle Sr. gave homespun Rhymester Edgar Albert Guest a long-term contract with Universal Pictures Corp. On the basis of a single screen test, "Uncle Carl" bubbled: "I look upon Mr. Guest as one of the great film stars of tomorrow. He is a leader in the field of modern American wit, vision and understanding. He knows American minds, hearts and homes...