Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rome last week two Italians who had tried unsuccessfully to blow "The Big Dog" into small bits met the special death that Italy reserves for spies and traitors-shooting in the back. Last summer 13 bombs exploded in Genoa, Bologna and Turin, killing three idlers and a policeman. One Genoese bombing almost coincided with the arrival of King Vittorio Emanuele. In September another bomb went off in a Genoese apartment, killing the mother of one Domenico Bovone. Police immediately arrested Bombmaker Bovone and eight co-plotters, including a Viennese dancer named Margherita Blaha with whom Conspirator Bovone had been touring...
There was a loud cheer as Owner Walls, who trains his own horses and motors to-Epsom every night so that he can live near his stables, led April the Fifth into the winner's circle. Said Owner Walls, a one-time jockey, then a policeman, locomotive engineer, actor, playwright and master of hounds: "I am glad to have lived for this . . . for once I'm the hero of a drama instead of a farce. . . ." He went to the Royal box, was congratulated by King George...
Night World (Universal) is a neat, legible carbon-copy of several other night club pictures. The night club's patrons, entertainers, chorus girls, doorman, policeman, gangsters, gamblers all get into the picture because they are all in the night club. Director Hobart Henley can thus change the subject whenever one set of characters begins to get dull, as in Vicki Baum's kaleidoscopic Grand Hotel. Mae Clarke is a square-shooting chorus girl who talks like a Girl Scout. She pities a young patron (Lew Ayres) who is the scion of a famed murder case and drinks...
...Manhattan, off for the weekend in their sedan, Louis Kuntzman & family could not have been more surprised when a policeman stopped them at the entrance to Holland Tunnel and news photographers came crowding around. The Kuntzman's car, explained the policeman reassuringly, was the 50 millionth to enter the westbound tube since it opened...
...Shows, Three's a Crowd); and Smith Reynolds, 20, tobacco scion of Winston-Salem, N. C. His first marriage was in 1929 to Anne L. Cannon of Concord, N. C. at 2 a. m. in York, S. C. with the bride's father (towel tycoon) and a policeman attending. When he becomes 28, Bridegroom Reynolds will receive the $20,000,000 estate of his father, the late Richard Joshua Reynolds...