Word: melvin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third of its Boston series, "Gold Eagle Guy," the Theater Guild brings forth what is by far the most pretentious and elaborate of its productions to date. A first play by Melvin Levy, it is the story of a robustious young seaman who comes to California in 1862 and remains, fascinated by the lure of yellow gold, to build with unscrupulous hand a vast merchant fleet. If the result falls somewhat short of an epic, the cast and the settings are not to blame...
...scene of the crime. From Washington, Assistant Director Harold Nathan flew to Louisville to co-ordinate the search. Inspector H. H. Clegg sped from Washington to take care of the Nashville end of the investigation. From Chicago hurried one of the littlest and ablest crook snatchers in the service-Melvin Purvis. Just past 30, Bureau Chief Purvis, University of South Carolina Law School graduate, helped with the Federal investigation of the Insull collapse, rounded up Verne Sankey and the Touhy gang, set the Chicago trap that resulted in the killing of Desperado John Dillinger last July.* In the Stoll case...
Died. Charles ("Pretty Boy") Floyd, 30, desperado; of gunshot wounds inflicted by Federal agents led by Melvin Purvis, Dillinger hero near East Liverpool, Ohio. Fortnight ago, after police learned he was one of three thugs responsible for the Union Station massacre in Kansas City last year, Floyd was flushed out of an Iowa farm (TIME, Oct. 22), badly wounded, chased through a half-dozen states to his death...
...Edward Bromberg, another leading member of the cast, then entered the discussion, and went on to explain that the group intended to produce if possible only plays involving social complications. Following "Men in White" come "Success Story" by John Lawson, and "Gold Eagle Guy" by Melvin Levy which has never been produced before...
These men are Jonathan S. England '35, Ferdinand R. Stent '36, Frank W. Vincent '36, Delavan C. Clos '35, Melvin G. Gorver '35, Leon H. Manheimer '36, Horace B. B. Robinson '35, John Dorman '36, and G. Fred Stork '35, Captain...