Word: paddocks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Charles ("Charlie") Paddock, Olympic race champion; to Bebe Daniels, cinema star. Mr. Paddock made the announcement when twitted for telephoning to Miss Daniels at Hollywood, Calif., from Albany...
...learned a lesson from what has happened to travelling tennis performers is evidenced by the action taken yesterday. It may be that further expressions of a returning sanity will make it unnecessary for Mr. Pyle to extend his purging process further with a travelling troupe containing Messrs. Nurmi, Paddock, Hoff, and their jlk. At any rate, evidence is accumulating that amateur athletics are being restored to a common sense boats...
...Herein a snobbish young lady is levelled down to democratic normalcy by collegiate pranks known only to cinema directors. After the reform, she blossoms forth as athletic heroine and wins many foot races for her seat of learning. In one of these, Bebe Daniels beats her famed fiance Charlie Paddock, to the tape-being goaded on the way to victory by the encroachments of a mouse upon her sensitive calf. Another one of the screen's trivia, with an agreeable comedienne...
...title role, but the title scarcely fits the role. The popular notion of a Campus Flirt, born of the novels of Percy Marks, and Scott Fitzgerald's maunderings upon the younger generation and jelly rolls, demands that a Flirt flirt. By the same token, if Flirt means flirt, Charlie Paddock means run. And except for one long distance shot of "the fastest human" showing his heels to a bunch of girl hurdlers, Paddock did even less running than Bebe did flirting...
Whoop it up for dear old Colton, the co-ed college where the scene is laid, for Charles Paddock--Himself, and for the janitor's pet mouse which ran up Bebe Daniel's silk stocking, frightened the haughty young lady, and made her outdo the best girl hurdler old Colton could boast. Whoop it up for the Kappa Betas, who taught the haughty young lady a lesson, and then when she had won the relay for dear old Colton, promptly took her in. Whoop it up for the director who conceived the notion of locking Bebe in the Astronomy Observatory...