Word: jig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...social-climbing snob who has changed their name to Murfree. Mike Donovan (Addison Randall) is Charles Murfree's campaign publicity manager. It is Mike who becomes attached to Murfree's daughter Elinor but it is Pat who horrifies Mrs. Murfree by his frowzy appearance, dances an authentic jig at a political rally, conducts a senile romance with a female ward-leader named Oulihan (Maureen Delany) and finally wins the election for his son by appearing on a rostrum to denounce Murfree's rival for attempted kidnapping...
Robert M. Sweitzer of Chicago is a man of great personal and political charm. Born 67 years ago at the corner of Wells and Van Buren Streets, he often took part in neighborhood blackface minstrel shows, could dance an excellent jig, played third base on a semiprofessional baseball team and was a contestant in billiard tournaments. Thousands of Chicagoans called him '"Bob." In 1910 he was elected Cook County Clerk. Twice he headed the Democratic city ticket against Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, losing without disgrace. Last November Sweitzer was elected Treasurer of Cook County. Last week...
After the court approved the plan (which includes a change of name to Paramount Pictures), the only missing jig in the Paramount puzzle was the executive staff. Last week Paramount's 17 new directors got together in Manhattan, attended to this final detail. Old Mr. Zukor was given a berth as board chairman but key job of executive committee chairman went to Mr. Fortington. Picked for president was John Edward Otterson, 54, a tall, quiet, iron-haired onetime Naval officer who has long headed Electrical Research Products, Inc., American Telephone & Telegraph's spectacular subsidiary...
...melodramas. Spectators get to hoping desperately that in the general gunplay, Duke Mantee (able Humphrey Bogart in a stubble beard) will somehow forget to shoot Actor Howard, who has turned in another of his fragile, impressively assured impersonations to adorn a notable career. But everyone must know his jig is up when he tells Actress Conklin: "We'll be together always-in a funny sort...
...Jig Saw (by Dawn Powell; Theatre Guild, producer) is a glib little pastiche which ends the Theatre Guild's 16th season, brings minuscule Ernest Truex and fluttery Spring Byington into the organization for the first time. Miss Powell is better known for her novels (She Walks in Beauty) than for her dramatic works (Big Night). And she is pitiably outclassed when compared to such Guild comic artists as S. N. Behrman, Ferenc Molnar and George Bernard Shaw. Although Jig Saw is utterly without significance and woefully short on plot, it abounds in witty if ungermane lines...