Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oliver Twist, Little Robinson Crusoe) ; to Betty Grable, 20, famed rather for her long-standing (three year) engagement to Coogan than for her cinema roles (Old Man Rhythm, Follow the Fleet); during a recess in the production of College Swing (in which Miss Grable is the lead and Coogan acts a bit part); in Los Angeles...
...call on him. That is courtesy and respect from police. All too often, when a student is stopped by a policeman, the constabulary takes a hostile attitude on the assumption that the college boy is a "kid who can afford to pay." Such a frame of mind can only lead to resentment from the student, who goes through with his brush with the law determined to "get away with it" next time, rather than cooperate for the benefit of the whole community. Students should be arrested for violations, just like anybody else, but the law's effort should...
...along totally different lines from the bread-&-butter aggressiveness of the American Newspaper Guild. The six drew in their friends, organized the American Press Society, "free to foster the economic welfare of its members by methods which would not tend to reduce newspaper salaries to minimum standards or lead to strikes or other coercive and violent measures tending to impair the reputation and dignity of journalism as a profession." The Society would ''not commit itself ... to any other cause or movement...
Inheritor last January of $1,000,000, most of which "slipped through my fingers like quicksilver," Geraldine Spreckels Spreckels, 21-year-old great-granddaughter of the late rich Sugar Tycoon Claus Spreckels, signed a Warner Brothers contract as a feature player, hopes to play second lead to Bette Davis in Warners' forthcoming Jezebel. Cinemactress Spreckels is currently separated from her Cousin-Husband Adolph Bernard Spreckels Jr., whose third wife she is. Not to be confused with many & many another Spreckels kin, she will act under the name of Anna Johns...
...second National Book Fair, the Herald-Traveler its first Boston Book Fair. The Manhattan show, held on the 38th and 39th floors of the International Building in Rockefeller Center, could claim such celebrities as Fannie Hurst, Emil Ludwig and Pearl Buck. The Boston Fair had H. G. Wells as lead-off man, with Robert Frost...