Word: hook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appropriately, first of the three shows to raise its curtain was presented by John C. Wilson, Noel Coward's U. S. representative who temporarily sidestepped that association and put on Excursion last spring on his own hook, thus becoming the past season's most promising freshman producer. Of the other two productions, one was offered by a very oldtimer, the other by a pair of Johnny-come-latelies. The casts of two shows were livened by the appearance of two big-time cinema performers, only one play was written by a U. S. citizen and none was likely...
...chest and back. By matching him not against Champion Steele but against the No.1 U. S. challenger, San Francisco's Fred Apostoli, Mike Jacobs left the way clear for another championship bout. Boxer Apostoli won half of the first eight rounds. In the ninth a solid left hook opened a long gash over Thil's right eye. By the next round so much blood was running down Thil's face and trickling through the hair on his chest that Referee Arthur Donovan stepped in, gave Apostoli Thil's title on a technical knockout...
...Bill Morgan (Pat O'Brien). He loves her too but has no time for foolishness. Between the first sequence and the last, Joan Blondell swoops through a breathlessly foreshortened flight of pseudo-newsfalconry. She gets an innocent woman indicted for murder, flattens a leering lounger with a right hook to the jaw. In the best traditions of the temperamental reporter, she several times resigns her job, with equal fidelity to tradition cannot resist grabbing it back when a hot story breaks right under her nose, punctuates her progress by the tintinnabulations of shattering glass doors as she flounces...
Because he is no Jew, Paris cartoonists feel free to take the greatest liberties with M. Bonnet's sharp nose, sketched him last week calling to a secretary at the Finance Ministry: "Come, Mademoiselle, let us have a little method around here. Put the paid bills on the hook!" (see cut). Since he landed, the Ambassador has cut French expenditures by six billion francs ($222,000,000), imposed ten and a half billions in new taxes ($388,500,000), and last week he slapped "on the hook" a new contract with the Bank of France. Under this the Bank...
...represent them as labor arbitrator, the eight major companies included in the Producers Association (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount, Warner Bros., Twentieth Century-Fox, RKO, United Artists, Universal and Columbia) elected Benjamin Bertram Kahane, for the last year right-hand man to Columbia's President Harry Kohn. Bald, hook-nosed Ben Kahane, 45, is a onetime Chicago lawyer who became general counsel for the old Orpheum Circuit, and got into cinema when the Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corporation was formed in 1928, worked up to become president of RKO Studios in Hollywood until a year ago. Promptly dubbed "producers' tsar...