Word: joes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sing You Sinners (Paramount) combines the Sentimental Family plot (see col. 2) with the Crooked Horse Race plot -perhaps an influence of the double feature. The Beebe family is distinguished from most cinema families by the fact that one member of it (Fred MacMurray) works. Joe Beebe (Bing Crosby) does not work, not having the knack. He is idle and lazy, with no thrift, energy or regard for the value of money; he drinks, philanders, plays the horses, comes to an only temporary good end. When Mrs. Beebe (Elizabeth Patterson) persuades him to give up the trade of horse racing...
...Manhattan, one hot evening last week, Joe Charlton, 31, and his wife Claire, of San Marcos, Calif., boarded the Comet, night boat to Providence, R. I. Going through Hell Gate Channel in the East River, the purser told them there were no more staterooms. Mr. Charlton demanded the captain turn back. Captain Pendelton demurred. Mr. Charlton took off his hat. coat and shoes. "Come on, Claire," he shouted, jumped overboard, struck out for shore through treacherous currents where many a man has drowned. Impressed, Captain Pendelton ordered the Comet pulled up at North Brother Island, let Mrs. Charlton off, telephoned...
...Huckleberry Finn, Elsie Dinsmore, Uncle Remus, Penrod, Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa, The Story of a Bad Boy, Little Lord Fontleroy, Goops and How to Be Them, The Last of the Mohicans, Freckles, Tarzan of the Apes, Pollyanna, Beautiful Joe...
...Dear Joe...
President also of International News Service, International News Photos, Central Press Association and chairman of the board of Hearst Radio, Inc., smiling Joe Connolly is now regarded as his master's favorite. Mr. Connolly shares the editorial motto of all Hearstlings, high and low: "The Chief says-." Last month Hearst editors and writers found themselves with a new editorial attitude when the entire Hearst chain editorially chided the Saturday Evening Post for cartooning President Roosevelt's spending program as an attempt to buy a third term : "It is true that Mr. Roosevelt wants and needs prosperity...