Word: performer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experience on programs like Lucky Strike. Show Boat and THE MARCH OF TIME. After Anthony Adverse, Bobby Mauch was cast in Penrod & Sam. Again he and Billy took turns acting and. standing-in. When Warners drew up a new contract, Mrs. Mauch refused to let one son perform as stand-in for the other on the ground that it might give him an inferiority complex. When studio executives demurred, Mrs. Mauch threatened to let Warners keep one twin, sign the other with a rival studio...
...Elwood Henneman. The doubles positions are made up of the Lowman-Hauck team at number 1 and the Dorson-Fuld combination at 2. In the Miami match Adrian Malone and Art Brown, only Sophomore on the team, paired for the number 3 doubles match and are likely to perform again today...
...Pool's complaint, mainly because he has a fine, two-fingered feel for medical necessities, Editor Thurston Scott Welton of the American Journal of Surgery last week produced a 416-page issue chock-full with 87 articles about the minor surgery which an ordinary doctor can perform in his own office. Dr. Pool blessed Editor Welton's venture. So did the president of the American Medical Association Surgeon Charles Gordon Heyd of Manhattan. And Philadelphia's self-controlled Surgeon William Wayne Babcock, who once awed doctors by violating a surgical apothegm and performing an operation...
...Rebellion; Southerners, the War between the States. Historians refer to it as the Civil War. But what plain folks called it while it was going on, few Northerners or Southerners or historians can now tell convincingly. To roll back time 75 years is a trick only artists can perform. Evelyn Scott has had a good try. Last week Newshawk Royce Brier had another. A Pulitzer Prizeman (for his story of the Brooke Hart kidnappers, 1934). he went at his bigger story in first-rate newshawk fashion. 1937 readers of Boy in Blue may not get exactly the same news...
Sonorously romantic when describing the beautiful performance of the Joseph Conrad at sea, or when he describes the islands of the South Seas, Author Villiers is crisply honest about the seamy side of the voyage. Financial worries led his grievances, but he stuck to his vow to "make no films, advertise nothing, perform no stunts," letting publisher's royalties from past and future books bear the main expense. Personnel problems were plentiful among his boyish crew, but chief offenders were the finicky U. S. college boys, who were apt to be diligent only about seducing native women. The radio...