Word: quirt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. William Boyd, 45, saturnine stage and cinema actor (not to be confused with William ["Bill"] Boyd, younger film actor); of gastric hemorrhage, in Los Angeles. His most famed role: as Sergeant Quirt opposite the late Louis Wolheim's Captain Flagg in What Price Glory...
...General Johnson, the sort of oldtime cavalryman who would bite a horse's ear if he lost his quirt, needed any moral support it was supplied last week in the person of Bernard Mannes Baruch, his great & good friend. The tall, smiling Jew with the fine thoughtful head, arrived in Washington just as he had done almost every week for the past 20 years. But this arrival set official Washington by the ears. Amid a blaze of unwelcome publicity, he started a report for President Roosevelt on the recovery plan and a set of recommendations on U. S. policy...
British Discipline, Several years ago the Illustrated London News printed a photograph from the U. S. cinema What Price Glory? It showed a disheveled, drunken Captain Flagg scuffling with Sergeant Quirt over an estaminet table. Below was a pithy caption: "Not British Discipline." Since then British Discipline has suffered many a rude shock. There was the disgraceful affair off Malta in 1928 when Rear Admiral Bernard St. George Collard was compulsorily retired for shameful conduct, such as insulting Bandmaster Percy Barnacle (TIME, March 6, 1928 et seq.). Last January the crew of the submarine tender Lucia mutinied on a rumor...
Derelict (Paramount). George Bancroft and that William Boyd who, to distinguish him from another star of the same name, is generally referred to as "the incomparable Sergeant Quirt in the stage version of What Price Glory," fight each other in many seaports and on ships for the favors of Jessie Royce Landis. They are first mates on boats of the. same line. Bancroft is the first mate who really loves the girl. Boyd is the nasty first mate. The melodramatic episodes arranged for them are well directed and plausible for this kind of thing. Best shot: a storm...
Pecos Bill, who roamed the Southwest. Pattern of all cowboy hell-raisers, he was so tough he rode a catamount, used a rattlesnake as quirt...