Word: neb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cinema audiences as the spectacle of Clark Gable embracing Norma Shearer for the first time since they both appeared in Strange Interlude (1932). Consequently, he devoted the first three reels of Idiot's Delight to establishing the fact that they had once shared a hotel bedroom in Omaha, Neb., and most of the rest to indicating that they will presently share another. Thus, the most profound problems proposed for cinemaddicts are just how the Hays office chanced to approve the character impersonated by Miss Shearer, and just how inexpertly Gable dances...
...Lincoln, Neb...
Died. Pat Crowe, 69, famed ex-train robber, kidnapper and jewel thief; of heart disease; in Manhattan. In 1900 Crowe helped kidnap 15-year-old Edward Aloysius Cudahy Jr. (now president of Cudahy Packing Co.) in Omaha, Neb. When he was apprehended five years later, he charged Cudahy with engineering the plot himself. The jury acquitted him. In 1929 the Bertillon Bureau of the Buffalo police checked the fingerprints of a suicide, identified him as Crowe. Same day Pat Crowe, then reformed, walked vehemently into Manhattan's police headquarters to deny his death...
Father Edward J. Flanagan, who sold the cinema rights both to his name and to the name of his orphanage, Boys Town, Neb., to help raise funds, wryly revealed that since Boys Town appeared (TIME, Sept. 12), contributions have totaled $5,000 less than last year and are much slower in coming in. His explanation: The cinema makes out Boys Town to be a firmly established institution, gives the impression that Father Flanagan is the sort of financial wizard who can make shekels out of a shoestring...
OLIVER HOLBROOK Lincoln, Neb...