Word: playboys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early in the 1920's he got the ear of Harry Payne Whitney through his playboy son, Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, who knew something about mining as well as water travel (see cut), canoed through Manitoba lakes and rivers to inspect the claims in person. Upshot was organization of Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting in 1927 with the Flin Flon claims and $17,500,000 in cash. Jack Hammell and his hungry prospectors had already been paid off on substantially their own terms...
...sympathy, no best wishes rose to greet brown, broad-shouldered Champion Max Baer as that prime poseur, playboy and punchinello of the U. S. prize ring parted the ropes. The customers could not help resenting the fact that Baer's night club escapades, his cinema career (The Prizefighter and the Lady), his reluctance to train properly, amounted to a refusal to take seriously the sport of fisticuffing and, by inference, its patrons. The fact that he had won his title in the same ring where he was now about to risk it. and where no championship had ever been...
Break of Hearts (RKO) is the story of the fascinating orchestra leader, adored by women generally, and his beautiful wife, adored by the orchestra leader's playboy crony in particular, and the difficulties which they cause each other before achieving final reconciliation. When the wife leaves the orchestra leader, she runs into such troubles as alcoholism, fainting spells and fits of giggles to conceal her breaking heart. When she refuses to take him back, he experiences the same symptoms, with overtones of rudeness, egomania and, finally, prostration. The only thing that makes these developments, usually reserved for pictures aimed...
...playboy Broadway star who just can't stick with his show when the ponies begin to run at Caliente; and, you guessed it, he's all washed up with the producers when Ruby Keeler convinces him he needs a partner. The way she convinces him is the most satisfying but of tapping we've even seen. The story is their fight to get back to Broadway, and, in itself it furnishes no little interest. Glenda Farrell a girl who hasn't disappointed us yet, gets some good lines as Al's wisecracking sister. Helen Morgan sings well, and goes over...
...never been a playboy," complained Clerk Astor. Turning to the pressagent, "Have I been a playboy...