Word: kidding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Lyda Roberti, 28, blonde Polish-born actress; of acute nephritis; in Hollywood. Daughter of a clown, she won success by enthusiastic undulations and a mid-European accent, both on Broadway (You Said It, Roberta) and in films (Million Dollar Legs, The Kid From Spain...
...claimed him first, and he turned professional as soon as he graduated, competing in around 40 bouts in his pro career. As a prize-fighter, he lost only one fight, and that was to Jim Maloney, of South Boston. He admits with some hesitation that instead of being called "Kid Lamar" or the "Southern Slugger," he was billed as "The Washington Schoolboy...
Last week Miss Fields (alias Mrs. Archie Selinger) could well afford the fancy gown and long kid gloves in which she alighted from her limousine at Buckingham Palace. The most famed of 187 persons who had come to receive from the hand of George VI the stars, orders and ribbons awarded in the New Year's Honors (TIME, Jan. 10), she curtsied demurely while the King-Emperor pinned the rose-colored ribbon and the badge of a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire...
Princeton's play was hindered by the loss of three veteran players. Bill Barrett, Senior defenseman, was on the sick list along with Sophomore Harry Turner, left wing on the "Kid Line," and Doug Cochrane, center on the Junior line. Both Cochrane and Turner will be ready for action against Harvard, but it is doubtful if Barrett will make the trip...
...When Kid Galahad had run its course, Don't Pull Your Punches was taken off the shelf, dusted off, released under its third title, The Kid Comes Back. Less realistic than Kid Galahad, which focused on the chicanery of the fight racket, The Kid Comes Back concerns itself with an aging trial horse of the ring (Barton MacLane), whose sole remaining barrier to the championship is his own protégé (Actor Morris). In setting the stage for the old trial horse to have his day at last, the story permits itself a few trenchant observations about heavyweight...