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...theme song, "Hold Your Horses," to his mare Magnolia. When he refers to Magnolia's heart of gold a flap opens in her side, displaying a large gilt heart. A midget in a tiny horse's suit runs out on the stage with Magnolia's dinner pail, a feedbag full of oats. Broadway Joe takes the bag, pats the midget, blandly remarking: "That's her son. This is her fodder." Assisted by uncouth Dave Chasen, Mr. Cook finally removes his hack and horse from the stage. Messrs. Cook & Chasen have provided themselves with trainmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 2, 1933 | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

...employment office furnishes all the equipment, which consists of a red pail, chamois skin, sponge, and soap, and states that it will have a man on the job one hour after notification. The workers are to be trained by an experienced window-washer, and will receive $.50 per hour, with a minimum charge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EMPLOYMENT OFFICE FORMS WINDOW CLEANING BRIGADE | 4/12/1933 | See Source »

...made off with his wife during the War. Even revenge, for Jubilo, reduces itself to loitering. He loiters into the household of a respectable judge (Frederick Burton) who naturally turns out to be the man Jubilo is looking for. After trying to milk a cow by putting a pail under it and saying "Go on!", straightening out romantic difficulties for his own daughter (Marion Nixon) without telling her who he is, Jubilo loiters away from the household of Judge Hardy, singing a Jubilo song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 12, 1932 | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

Publisher Rogan said Judge's liabilities were $500,000, mostly in bills for his predecessors' fun. The magazine owes him $16,994. Assets include the name, record, credit for coining the "full dinner pail" slogan for the McKinley campaign of 1896, a primary subscription circulation of 130,000 and an indefinite secondary circulation. All these, thinks Publisher Rogan, are worth more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Judge's Fun | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

...Well, what became of the old full din ner pail? . . . Bank failures blazed in the headlines of every newspaper across the country, bankruptcy proceedings,, fore closures on mortgages, depreciation in the value of prime securities, paralysis of busi ness & industry and. topping it all, 7,000,000 men out of work. . . . The Administration plans for the relief of unemploy ment are indefensible. . . . Why, they passed the question along to the States. localities and private charities [which] cannot cope with the situation. . . . Now, what is the record of these two forms of relief? First is relief in the home; second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Democracy's Week | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

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