Word: playboys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...playboy son, aided by eerie ghosts and haunts, triumphs over his old father. This is the theme of the Classical Club's Tercentenary Latin Play which opens at Sanders Memorial Theatre at 3.00 o'clock Wednesday, April 15, for three performances which are all open to the public...
...Murphy, is preparing a doctoral dissertation on the relation of fine arts to history; consequently she is forced to use the facilities of both the museum and library for her research. The problem arises when fatally beautiful Gertrude falls in love with Reggie Burlingame, young fine arts instructor and playboy, while at the same time she has become the despair of poor but honest Gregory P. Grupp, assistant at the delivery desk in the library. With telling power the author depicts the struggle that tears the heart of the girl when Leap Year arrives and she knows she must...
...Collegiate, Playboy Joe Craig (Jack Oakie), his press-agent (Ned Sparks) and his right-hand man (Lynne Overman) are dismayed when Craig's aunt wills him a young ladies' seminary. The plot takes its expected course when Craig, after hitchhiking to the school, turns it into a combined singing & dancing academy, with the aid of Mack Gordon and Harry Revel, who wrote the songs they play in the picture, Frances Langford, as a secretary who falls in love with Craig, and an enticing quorum of Paramount chorus girls. All this is pleasantly written and brightly played, but whether...
...what the effect would be," James ( "Jimmie") Donahue, Woolworth 5?-&-10? heir, cousin of Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz. stepped onto a balcony of his Rome hotel, shouted "Viva Ethiopia " squirted a syphon of soda water at a group of young Fascists. Effect: two Government agents presently escorted Playboy Donahue to the Italian frontier...
...notable feature of the early 1920's was the Stutz Bearcat, a fast & flashy automobile that rode, looked, and sounded like a racing car. About the same time that Bearcats were reaching the peak of playboy popularity, Stutz Motor stock provided some excellent advertising by rising in a brief period from $70 per share to $724. That was the notorious "Stutz Corner" engineered by Allan Ryan, son of the late Thomas Fortune Ryan who in his will cut off his speculative heir with a set of pearl studs...