Word: prop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...winks at the Hays Code, which frowns on teaching cinemaddicts how to commit crimes, by illustrating a practically foolproof way to commit one. When Frank Ross (James Cagney), a fresh reporter, presses too close to the racketeers running his home town, the boys slug him, douse him with whiskey, prop him behind the steering wheel of a car and head it toward a crowded intersection. The result starts Jimmy off on a long term for manslaughter and gives Fellow Prisoner Hood Stacey (George Raft) his opportunity to meet "the first really square guy I've ever known." It also...
...President Sophie Tucker, stout trouper who is widely regarded as a lovable prop executive, held an A. F. A. meeting to get a vote of confidence. Miss Tucker wept, a blonde bit another actor, there was a free-for-all and no vote of confidence. Last week as the A. F. A. trial opened, Miss Tucker, other executives and A. F. A. lawyers walked out on it, charging that it was packed and illegal...
Though 61-year-old Lionel Barrymore makes expert use of his wheel chair, a prop dear to a character actor as sword & cloak to a romantic hero, in scene-stealing honors 8-year-old Bobs Watson comes off best. Youngest son of an oldtime actor who has four other children in the movies Cinemactor Watson has appeared in 29 pictures, now earns about $800 a week He got the role of Pud after its Broadway incumbent, 8-year-old Peter Holden, was judged too mature for the part. Swamped by autograph seekers at the preview of On Borrowed Time...
...wild tropical storm the steward slips overboard, the ship yaws blindly past Panama City, finally comes to a desperate, forced landing in a South American jungle. One prop is bent, one motor dead, the radio transmitter out, but nobody is hurt...
...Bandmaster Georg Furst of Adolf Hitler's Bavarian Regiment. Herr Hitler first heard it at the Munich Hofbrauhaus, whose themesong it was. Bawled out by leather-lunged Bavarians while beer mugs banged the tables, the Badenweiler soon became a favorite of Fiihrer Hitler.* Later as a prop for such doggerel...