Word: post
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play itself is called "Leaning on Letty," by Wilbur Daniel Steele and Norma Mitchell. It is taken from "Post Road," one purpose of the adaptation being to include the name "Letty," Miss Greenwood's favorite alias. It begins with farce, but before the first of the two acts is over, the spectator learns that he is dealing with criminals plentifully sprinkled in amongst the comics. After the curtain rises again, Letty Madison slowly but effectively outwits the motley gang of variously disguised crooks that has taken possession of her old Connecticut homestead to perpetrate a kidnapping act. The team consists...
...opening scene given definite promise that the picture will develope into something pretty miserable, and the spectator is not disappointed. There are chases in the night, airplanes, motorcycles, machine guns, and just everything. In between times, the gay dashing and apparently (from this picture) boring life at an Army post is depicted to the point where people start getting restless and rustling paper candy wrappers. Plan to miss...
...Please post this notice and have search made at all hospitals and institutions as there was no apparent reason for his disappearance." It is signed by Timothy F. Leahy, Chief of Police...
Last week, as advertised, the Providence Star-Tribune came up for sale. Providence newspapermen expected it to go to Julius David Stern, publisher of the New York Post and Philadelphia Record who was interested in the Star-Tribune because he had once been general manager of its forerunner, the Providence News...
...more up-to-date "detail portrait of itself" in August 1935, when WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins picked a bespectacled, slow-speaking ex-lawyer, ex-newspaperman, ex-publicity agent, Henry Alsberg, as national director. The survivor of a helter-skelter career that included editorial writing on the New York Post, a year as secretary to the U. S. Ambassador to Turkey before the War, a post-War job as the Nation's foreign correspondent, a term as director of the Provincetown Theatre, Director Alsberg started his big job by picking State directors throughout the U. S., soon had a Writers...