Word: likes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...successfully with human actors as with cartoons. It can. As long as The Wizard of Oz sticks to whimsey and magic, it floats in the same rare atmosphere of enchantment that distinguished Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. When it descends to earth it collapses like a scarecrow in a cloudburst...
...oldtime Playwright Zoë Akins. To make it live on the screen, Warner Bros, teamed their pop-eyed Bernhardt, Bette Davis, with an equally fiery filly from off the home lot, honey-haired Miriam Hopkins. The result flounces its skirts a little more boldly than the stage show but, like it, is hardly more than the sum total of two good, sometimes brilliant, performances...
...Hambletonian (for three-year-old trotters), 40,000 harness-racing enthusiasts gathered last week in the tiny village of Goshen, N. Y. It was the year's muggiest day. But the sweltering crowd-a hodge-podge of city slickers and country bumpkins-jostling into Good Time Park like a rush-hour subway crush, would not have traded places with the coolest sea bather. Up to the bookmakers they streamed, placed their bets, bought soda pop, then settled down to watch the four races on the Hambletonian Day card...
...70year-old horse-&-buggy doctor from the Ohio sticks, announced that he had just refused a foreign-syndicate offer of $37,500 for the bay colt he had bought as a yearling for $3,250. Outstanding two-year-old of 1938, Little Pete, who wears his forelock ribbon-braided like a pickaninny's, has been undefeated in five races this year (he has not lost a heat or once broken his stride, even in scoring). Winner of $47,000 so far this year, and entered in six more rich stakes, he may well become the biggest money-winning three...
...Like most of his big-time colleagues, Doc Parshall operates a public training stable, takes on horses at $100 a month (this year he has 28). Unlike jockeys in Thoroughbred racing, Standardbred drivers have their own racing colors. Doc Parshall's red-white-&-blue silks were handed down to him by an early-Century driver named Tom Murphy. Harness-racing drivers need never worry about weight. Doc Parshall may go on driving for decades-like the late great Pop Geers who raced for 50 years -may have many more champions like Peter Astra...