Word: pied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into a cinema leaving out all the songs except Honeymoon Lane. It is a sentimental but engaging work, at times lively with the childish antics of Ray Dooley (Mrs. Eddie Dowling), at times in the nature of a Dowling soliloquy on the virtues of faith and of cherry pie. It relates the adventures of an enterprising youth who, discharged as croupier in the gambling rooms of a resort hotel, becomes manager of a rival boarding-place. Aided by the motherly proprietress, who makes succulent pastries; by her small granddaughter (Ray Dooley) who uses carpet sweepers as roller-skates...
...vitriolic epithets. In doing so they make considerable asses of themselves in the eyes of their old friends, although a representative Boston audience looks on with good-natured indulgence. Of course, the third act reveals that the news of the legacy was false, and the inflated pair eat humble pie with obvious relish. There was also a colored maid whose paraphernalia consisted of a grotesque walk, and an inadvertent un-negroid voice. This young lady was a friend of the advertisers in the programme...
...Marion Davies and Bebe Daniels. Gloria Swanson is one of those seasoned cinema wheel-horses who, though they pass through periods of taking themselves seriously, still do their best work in comedies. Gloria Swanson got her start in a striped, form fitting bathing suit in the old Mack Sennett pie & water works. Once Chaplin refused to allow her a bit in His New Job because she was too solemn. Her sense of humor has now developed to the point of sending bundles of old newspapers to the staterooms of friends sailing for Europe with the greeting: "Just something to read...
Over a year ago, in Chicago, Peter Grimes had the same leg rebroken, this time by a pie wagon. By chance Dr. Jerger, now practicing in Chicago, was called to amputate the leg. He was delighted to recognize his old handiwork. Again Peter Grimes disappeared. But this time he was comparatively rich from his accident award. Dr. Jerger, vexed by certain meannesses in Peter Grimes's behavior, sued, not for the old $500 which of course was outlawed, but for his new fee (TIME, March...
...offered a salary of $100,000 by the company when in 1912 he decided to go into business for himself. His first experience was in the foil industry, and in 1928 he formed Reynolds Metals Co. by merging four important companies in this line. He also formed Eskimo Pie Corp., control of which is held by Reynolds Metals...