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...other feature, "Three Sons," explains how some Windy City lad made a pile of money in The Bazaar. For this is the story of The Store and how it grew. If you want the dope on how to found a dynasty and how, once it is founded, to end it, this is the picture for you. J. Edward Bromberg is the only oasis in an otherwise barren cinema. The final scene of the father--Edward Ellis--dying with the blinking Bazaar sign in the background was more than a body could bear. We hobbled from the theatre in tears...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...Louis Ethelbert Whitsitt, a bright, brown-eyed Michigan lad with good schooling and a job, seemed headed in the right direction. Then, one night in 1933, he went dead wrong. With his big brother and two other fellows, he kidnapped and robbed a Detroit man named Joseph Nesbitt, watched one of the gang shoot the victim and leave him to die by the roadside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Inside Stuff | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...youth," Kaiser Wilhelm replied to the lad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Grabberwoch Came G | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Kaufman & Connelly separated, amicably, long ago. Connelly, Broadway has always intimated, was too "sot" in his ideas to work smoothly in harness. Of Hart, 15 years his junior, Kaufman says: "I have been smart enough as I grew older to attach to myself the most promising lad that came along in the theatre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Past Master | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...athlete who after an exhausting workout wonders "is it worth it?"; for the bespectacled lad who in his Widener cell asks himself "where is this getting me?"; for the socialite who in Hayes-Bickford at 5 a.m. muses "why do I ever go to Boston parties?"; for the Brooks House missionary who in the squalor of the slums demands "what can I do for them?";--for these men particularly the Crimson has been proven to have the greatest value. Now if your life--or your shy modesty--prevents you from being included in any one of the aforementioned categories there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TONIGHT AT SEVEN-THIRTY | 11/14/1939 | See Source »

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