Word: lon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brooklyn night school, he got a job as office boy to Universal's Carl Laemmle, for whom he filmed his first big show, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, in 1923. Soon stolen by MGM, he produced Ben Hur, The Merry Widow, The Big Parade, developed such stars as Lon Chaney, Robert Montgomery. Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, made M-G-M millions at the boxoffice. Addicted to nervous overwork, he arranged his most ambitious and recent film, Romeo & Juliet, around his wife, Norma Shearer (TIME...
...vastly simpler although staggeringly expensive method of literal photography in sets six times normal size. These scenes were shot on MGM's famed Stage No. 12, twice as big as any other soundstage on the lot. Unlike Director Tod Browning's Freaks, or most of the famed Lon Chaney silents which he made, The Devil-Doll's hobgoblinery beguiles rather than frightens...
...started in Detroit. The Cubs won the first game, 3-to-0, behind the able pitching of Arkansas' Lon Warneke, who allowed only four hits, equaled a World Series record by making eight assists. The Tigers won the second, 8-to-3, in an icy wind. Next day, in Chicago, the Cubs' demoralization ended in the nth inning, 6-to-5 for the Tigers. When, behind the expert pitching of Alvin Crowder. a seasoned, crafty right-hander who had pitched in two World Series before but never won a game, the Tigers took the fourth game...
...rowdy characteristics have earned them the nickname of "Gas House Gang," the Cubs have at least a half-dozen stars whose names will be household words after this week. Catcher Gabby Hartnett, their heaviest hitter is a huge, red-faced Irishman who has been with the Cubs since 1922. Lon Warneke a lanky, hay-pitching, coon-hunting 26-year-old from Arkansas, is the right-handed ace of the pitching staff (Warneke, French, Root, Lee), which rotated with rhythmic brilliance through their winning streak. At the start of the season, Manager Grimm was the Cubs' regular first baseman. Nineteen...
...fielding average is .979 compared to .974 last year. Its batting average is 289, exactly the same as the Cubs . Both the Tigers and the Cubs have topnotch infields. The Tigers have a super-star Hank Greenberg, on first base. Their pitching ace, Schoolboy Rowe a lanky Arkansan like Lon Warneke last year won 16 games in a row. Until Aug 3 this year he won only half his games then took nine out of his next eleven. Furthermore, in Mickey Cochrane the Tigers possess not only the best catcher in either league but one who is apparently...