Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following, but not to the letter, the stories concocted by Author Booth Tarkington, Penrod (Leon Janney) steals a letter which his sister is writing to an admirer, reads it aloud in lieu of an English composition. He and his friends belong to the In-or-In Club of which Penrod is president. When obliged to initiate a sniveling little teacher's pet, they paddle him till he needs a doctor, slick down his hair so thoroughly with tar that he makes his next appearance with a shaved skull. Penrod and his friend Sam have a fight at a birthday...
...Leon Janney is a little too pretty and a shade too self-conscious for Penrod but his laugh, so incongruous with his speech that it sounds like a ventriloquist's giggle, is the most infectious sound in the picture. Sam (Junior Coghlan) has a flat Irish face, eyes that narrow pleasantly in anger; the short right with which he starts his fight with Penrod is better timed than Carnera's (see p. 22). Good shots: nice little Georgie Bassett doing a minuet at the birthday party while Penrod and Sam are fighting upstairs; the In-or-In Club...
...assail the long lantern jaw of Primo Carnera, Sharkey called in four doctors to attest his injury, demanded a postponement. The postponement was first denied, then granted, to Oct. 12. To disappointed Monster Carnera, deprived of his first real chance to prove the much-ridiculed contention of his manager, Leon See, that Carnera is the greatest heavyweight fighter in history, a substitute for Sharkey was suggested: onetime (1927-29) Light-heavy weight Champion Tommy Loughran, whom Carnera outweighs by 80 Ib. Carnera declined to fight Loughran, said he would fight Sharkey or no one, roared words to the effect that...
...factory, he joined an itinerant carnival, improved his muscles by wrestling with third-rate professionals, yokels in French villages. When the carnival disbanded, Monster Carnera bloated to 285 Ib. He was observed by a French pugilist, Paul Journée, who made friends with Carnera, telegraphed his onetime manager, Leon See, about the discovery. Manager See inspected Carnera, decided he was "a generosity of nature," took him to Paris to teach him how to fight...
...LEON FLETCHER JR. New York City Coincidence...