Word: mille
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Magnificent Brute (Universal) investigates the lighter side of life in the Pennsylvania steel towns. At his boardinghouse, Big Steve Andrews (Victor McLaglen) is idolized by Mrs. Finney, its proprietress, and her 10-year-old son. In the mill, he runs its most efficient furnace crew, to the chagrin of bragging Bill Morgan (William Hall). Their rivalry reaches its climax after Big Steve has stolen Bill's girl (Binnie Barnes), when Big Steve climbs into the ring with a professional wrestler imported by Bill. The wrestler throws Big Steve who, it appears, has lost $400 contributed by fellow workers...
Wedding Present (Paramount). Cinema newspaper people, merely drunken sots a few years ago, have kept on topping each other's efforts in irresponsibility. Currently newshawks on the screen are, with few exceptions (see below), practically indistinguishable from run-of-the-mill lunatics. Wedding Present turns a couple of these creatures loose to follow the bidding of their erratic temperaments. The result, however insulting to the dignity of the trade, is efficacious and at times uproarious comedy...
...memories is of ringing a bell to warn her father at the still that the sheriff was coming for him. A tall, slender, dark-eyed girl, Kit runs away from home at 15, after her father reveals an unpaternal interest in her. She gets a job in a textile mill, learns fast. Kit is befriended by a hard, homely girl, feels humiliated by being called a "lint head" by the townspeople, is loved by a boy dying of tuberculosis. It is at this period of her life that she meets the young man who wants to be a horse...
Minneapolis. After ten way-station stops Governor Landon arrived afternoon later in Minneapolis. No parade was waiting to meet him, for Minneapolis is in the grip of four mill strikes and a parade might have been seized on by radicals as occasion for a demonstration. When he left the Nicollet Hotel to go to the municipal auditorium, a small group of workmen was waiting for him. "Boo!" they shouted, "We're for Roosevelt! Boo! You're just another Hoover...
...when Harry Sheldon started working at Leechburg in a steel mill of old Kirkpatrick & Co., there was no high school at Tarentum, nor had he ever seen the inside of one anywhere else. He got his start in the Episcopal Home for Boys at Lawrenceville, near Pittsburgh, emerging at 14 to a $2 a week job in a machine shop. With Kirkpatrick he worked up first to be a hammer man, then a roller, valuable and well paid. He began wearing gloves to work, drove his own carriage; married, in 1889, May Alice Hicks of Leechburg. He was moved...