Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Family Tree (RKO) is the one about Pat and Mike. Pat (James Barton) is Patrick Murphy, an aging Dublin saloonkeeper who, arriving in the U. S. to discover what has become of his son Charles, finds him running for Mayor of Central City, Iowa, and married to a social-climbing snob who has changed their name to Murfree. Mike Donovan (Addison Randall) is Charles Murfree's campaign publicity manager. It is Mike who becomes attached to Murfree's daughter Elinor but it is Pat who horrifies Mrs. Murfree by his frowzy appearance, dances an authentic jig at a political rally...
Good Humor Corp. of America declares dividends whenever the idea pops into the busy head of Michael J. (''Mike") Meehan. Last week Mr. Meehan passed out a 50¢ dividend. Most of the half dollars clinked into Mr. Meehan's personal pocket. A few found their way to his good friend Alfred E. Smith...
...first Good Humor was concocted in 1920, the year that "Mike" Meehan moved up from the New York Curb Exchange to the New York Stock Exchange where he soon began riding Radio from $25 a share to a high of $549. Good Humor's creator was Harry B. Burt, a Cleveland candymaker, who took the name from one of his earlier creations, a clear candy sucker. Chocolate-coated ice cream was already the province of Eskimo Pie. But ice-cream-on-a-stick was new, patentable...
...touts, thugs, politicians and demimondaines has for its sphere the mansion rented by Remy Marco (John Harrington). Marco has been a brewer for some years, but only legally since 1933. It is consequently of some embarrassment to him when his faithful retainer Mike (Joseph Sweeney) discovers upon arriving at Saratoga that an upstairs room is occupied by four "parties." These parties, Mike reports, have firearms in their laps and poker cards in their hands, but their sport has been spoiled by someone's having shot them all dead. It subsequently develops that the parties had just knocked...
...already been demonstrated on the screen (Little Miss Marker, Lady for a Day), the more involved a Runyon character is written, the harder it is to act. Actor Harrington seems to interpret Marco not so much as a droll picaroon but as a bumbling slob. But as Mike, Actor Sweeney is a soft-spoken Runyon killer of the first order. If A Slight Case of Murder outlasts Three Men on a Horse, its aging kinsman in the theatre next door, it will be due largely to Mr. Sweeney...