Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Additional dialogue by Dorothy Parker" makes the story of "The Moon's Our Home" what it is--a delightful comedy brim full of witty Parkerisms. Faith Baldwin may have written the original story about two celebrities--one a Richard Halliburton and the other a Garboish actress--who hate one another's reputation, but fall in love under their original names of Brown and Smith, marry, and presumably fight ever after. But the spirit, praise be, is that of Miss Parker. Margaret Sullavan and Henry Fonda play the parts of the temperamental lovers with high-spirited zest. Charles Butterworth contributes...
...hour. Shortly thereafter the squat, hard-driving Governor sensationally re-opened the quiescent Hauptmann Case by publicly expressing doubt of the German carpenter's sole guilt, announcing that he had launched an independent investigation of the crime under New Jersey's famed small-town detective, Ellis Parker. The Governor charged State Police Superintendent H. Norman Schwarzkopf, a non-Hoffman Republican holdover, with having bungled the original investigation. He accused Attorney General David T. Wilentz, Democrat, of having conducted Hauptmann's prosecution at Flemington with bias and prejudice...
...three days later. In jail Wendel flatly repudiated his confession, said it had been wrung from him after a week's torture by three men who had kidnapped him in Brooklyn in mid-February. From Brooklyn, said he, he had been taken to the home of Detective Ellis Parker, then removed to the mental colony. There Detective Parker had persuaded him to sign a new 25-page confession, urging that he would make a million dollars out of it, promising that Governor Hoffman would help him escape punishment...
...night Robert M. Bunker, chairman, released the names of the successful candidates for the Editorial Board. They are: James English and Calvin W. Stillman, sub-chairmen; E. Dixwall Chase, Edwin Clarke. Charles D. Dyer, William C. Flinn, David D. Furman, Chester Handleman, Martin Lichterman, Robert F. Loomis, William N. Parker, Welch Peel, Richard H. Sullivan, and Walter W. Webster...
...Rochelle, N. Y. 40 years ago, lanky Robert Sherwood went to War with the Black Watch, returned to Harvard, where his wounds and gassing did not prevent him from editing the Lampoon with such success that Vanity Fair hired him as co-editor with Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker. Hopeful contributors to Life recall the macabre, unsmiling laugh, the generous good nature with which from 1920 to 1928 Editor Sherwood personally received their effusions. When he wrote The Road to Rome, Sherwood quit journalism for good. He published in Variety last week a notice that Harry Van was back...