Word: poker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manager Charles John Grimm was for years the best fielding first baseman in the league. In July, there were rumors he might lose his job. In August he snapped his team out of a losing streak by forbidding them to play poker. For the past three weeks, he has been superstitiously driving a nail into the heel of his shoe before each game. A capable baritone, banjoist and bagatelle player, nephew of Director George P. Vierheller of the St Louis Zoo, Manager Grimm has worried himself from 195 to 175 lb. since April. Last week, his worries partly over...
King Solomon of Broadway (Universal). In this inoffensive little program picture, outfitted with almost continuous music and hand-me-down wisecracks, King Solomon (Edmund Lowe) operates a night club built chiefly with funds supplied by a dangerous convict. King loses his hotspot in a poker game, finds the dangerous convict unexpectedly out on parole. While attending to these difficulties, he rescues a Long Island heiress (Louise Henry) from kidnappers, loses his heart to an entertainer (Dorothy Page) and a small dog named Hamburger. The smart talk, unfortunately, is the sort that goes sour in any mouth but Mae West...
...appointing one more commission to study the "youth problem" last fortnight, Dr. George Frederick Zook, poker-faced Director of the American Council on Education, reassured Washington newshawks: "This will not be just another survey." Last week the new commission, made up of President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago, onetime President Henry Ingraham Harriman of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, Novelist Dorothy Canneld Fisher, Newton Diehl Baker and ten others, met with its creator. For it Dr. Zook had two presents which gave his boast solid foundation. One was an $800,000 bankroll...
Serving as a private during the War, he was assigned to latrine duty, acquired a lasting distaste for the Army. Demobilized, he sold newspaper advertising, drifted into publishing, which he calls ''a gamble . . . tougher than any poker game I ever sat in and I have played in some tough ones, too." He established the American in Panama City in 1925, likes to boast that it is the only newspaper with a faro and roulette outfit among its assets...
...brewer for some years, but only legally since 1933. It is consequently of some embarrassment to him when his faithful retainer Mike (Joseph Sweeney) discovers upon arriving at Saratoga that an upstairs room is occupied by four "parties." These parties, Mike reports, have firearms in their laps and poker cards in their hands, but their sport has been spoiled by someone's having shot them all dead. It subsequently develops that the parties had just knocked off an armored truck full of bookmakers' money and were waiting to see Marco about an old matter involving a hijacked brewery...