Word: joel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three engine-makers-Baldwin's dewlapped Samuel Matthews Vauclain, American's songwriting, politically prominent William Hartman Woodin (see p. 9) and smaller Lima Locomotive's Joel Stanley Coffin-saw the danger signals ahead in 1928. Each company sought other ways to make money. They went into Diesel engines, power shovels and other heavy machinery as sidelines. But their great main plants are still locomotive plants and must have locomotive business to survive. The three companies can always count on some repair and parts business. But even this has been deferred, for with traffic falling off, broken-down...
Keith Boston--"The Sport Parade." Joel McCrea and Marian Marsh...
...bronze statue, nude and nearly life-sized, representing the waternymph in Milton's Comiis, Sabrina was presented to Amherst College in 1857 by one Joel .Hayden. For her nudity Sabrina became the object of many a practical joke. In 1890 the college authorities ordered her removed. Soon there began a series of frantic, tenacious, solemn battles over Sabrina, between the odd-numbered and even-numbered classes. She was first captured and hidden away in 1893. Thereafter Sabrina became known as the ''Goddess of Lord Jeffs." There arose Sabrina-traditions. Those in possession were "Sabrina Men" and must keep the statue...
Judy Carrol takes up travel, makes friends with Playwright Jake Pell (Joel McCrea) who is estranged from his wife. A jolly suitor, he writes a play for her, escorts her into dubious cafes, fills her bedroom with balloons. It looks as though Judy Carrol were going to get her baby at last until, on the opening of the play, there comes a bulletin from his first wife. She has provided Playwright Pell not with a divorce but with an infant. Brave through it all, Judy Carrol sends her fiancé back to his first wife and prepares...
During the filming of this picture, which she selected for herself, Constance Bennett lost ten pounds. This was not the only mishap in connection with Rockabye. A version of it made last summer with Phillips Holmes in Joel McCrea's role was so unsuccessful that RKO did the whole thing over again, with Jane Murfin & Kubec Glasmon to rewrite Horace Jackson's script and George Cukor directing instead of George Fitzmaurice. It emerges finally as a first-grade program picture, lachrymose but reasonable, brightened by Jobyna Howland's expert characterization of Judy's tippling mother. Instructive...