Word: lane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born. To Baron Jozippie Paucci, vaudeville midget (height 37 in.); and Margaret Lane, diving beauty (height 5 ft. 8 in.), his estranged wife: a daughter; in Memphis. Weight: 5 Ib. 11 oz. Said Baroness Paucci: "Yes, I love my husband. . . . That's why I married him. . . . We parted because we were jealous. . . . Women were always picking him up and telling him how cute...
Rushing at 60 m.p.h. through the westbound tube of Holland Vehicular Tunnel from Manhattan to New Jersey one evening last week, a light coupé veered out of the speed lane into the slow lane and crashed squarely into the rear of a lumbering biscuit truck. The car's driver and a passenger were killed. It was the Holland Tunnel's first fatal accident among 43 million cars which have passed through since its opening...
...Port of New York Authority, which operates the tunnel in addition to four interstate bridges, had trained its tunnel crew for just such an emergency. Red lights flashed. All traffic in the westbound tube was merged in one lane. Down the other in the opposite direction sped a wreck truck from the New Jersey entrance. Because all motor lights must be extinguished before entering the well-lit tunnel, the wrecking crew was not blinded by the glare of traffic. Quickly the smashed coupé was dragged out. Normal traffic was resumed in 20 minutes...
Shopworn (Columbia) escapes the danger, in which its plot places it, of being too accurately titled. Reserve in the directing and natural, finished acting, commend it to above-the-average cinemaddicts. Pop Lane and his daughter Kitty (Barbara Stanwyck) live in a construction camp. As pop is dying from injuries received in a dynamite blast, he warns his daughter that life is '"tough," tells her always to "take it on the chin." Kitty spends the remainder of the picture having a good time doing so. She moves from construction camp to college campus, waits on table...
Subsequent investigation yields nothing to Inspector Thumm and Attorney Bruno. In despair they turn to Drury Lane, a retired actor who had helped them on a criminal case before. Actor Lane is an esthetic Sherlock Holmes who quotes Shakespeare, names his servants after Shakespearean characters, lives in an Elizabethan village of his own creation, takes sunbaths in a breechcloth on an Elizabethan tower. He soon figures out who must have committed the murder, but he has a long way to go to get enough evidence for a legal conviction. Two more murders, an attempted suicide, a backtrack to a murder...