Word: jo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a nucleus of players from last year including Tom Healy and Slim Curtiss as pitchers, Bob Fulton, catcher, Lupe Lupien, Captain Art Johns, and Dick Grondahl, infielders, and Jo-Jo Soltz, Bob Gannett, and Rud Hoye, outfielders, the former Ohio Stater should be able to build a team which will more than hold its own in college circles...
...President Roosevelt joined by radio in dedicating a Will Rogers memorial museum and statue (by Jo Davidson) at Claremore, Okla. Excerpt: "When he [Rogers] wanted people to laugh out loud he used the methods of pure fun. And when he wanted to make a point for the good of all mankind, he used the kind of gentle irony that left no scars." Eddie Cantor said: "Any time you gave him a biscuit, he'd want to pay you back with a barrel of flour...
...work of Mr. Hart and Mr. Rodgers, then, that will make this heretical edition of "The Comedy of Errors" a hit, but George Balanchine has again endowed a chorus with that inimitable touch of his, and Jo Mielziner has designed sets that are as magnificent as they are fascinating. Some of Irene Sharaff's costumes are superb and some of them are the most atrociously ugly harnesses that ever sprang from a designer...
...HOUSE OF TAVELINCK-Jo van Ammers-Küller-Farrar & Rinehart...
...been discovered by Harry Cohn long before that, repaid his benefactor with hits like That Certain Thing (1928), Dirigible (1931), Platinum Blonde (1931), The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933), Lady for a Day (1933). From 1930 to 1932, Capra worked only on pictures written by Jo Swerling. Then Capra, who by this time had the privilege accorded only to directors of proven worth, of collaborating on stories, got a new teammate, Robert Riskin, who had started writing scenarios at the age of 17. Lady for a Day, one of their early collaborations, got runner-up honors from the Motion...