Word: radio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...football game which he wins by tackling a teammate who is running the wrong way. Sally O'Neil is in the cast. She does fairly well, but the old college material is so stale it is hardly amusing even when parodied. A faintly witty caricature-the radio announcer at the football game. College Coquette (Columbia). Garnished with some guttural and vapid dialog in the mouths of Ruth Taylor and William Collier Jr., the formula of the hero who is expelled after saving his roommate from disgrace is varied by having a girl expelled after trying to save the honor...
...takeoff from Mines Field, Los Angeles, among the celebrities present were Publisher William Randolph Hearst, whose $200,000 for exclusive reporting rights made the world flight possible at this time, and pert Cinemactress Marion Davies, Hearst friend. A radio announcer saw them together and to the listening world exclaimed: "Here's Hearst, big publisher-backer of this epochal flight. And who's with him? None other than dainty Miss Davies. Won't you speak a few words, Miss Davies?" Miss Davies, somewhat tremulously, complied. The announcer then called on Mr. Hearst. He refused...
Feeling none too comfortable, the lookout reported to the radio man. The radio man laconically flashed the message ashore. Later on, the Coldwater's company discussed the matter at mess. It was no night, they agreed for airmen...
...whale's carcass after it is taken into the boat through a great opening in the bow. In the ports of New Zealand, Tasmania and Australia, these vessels are met by the small "killer" boats which bring in the whales. In addition to airplanes, modern "factory" ships use radio telephones, while the small "killers" carry a cannon that shoots a time-fused, explosive, 120-lb. harpoon. Once splashing and spouting in all the seas, whales are now found plentifully only in small areas of the Arctic and Antarctic...
Lown v. Vallee. One Bert Lown, jazz orchestra manager, sued Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee, idolized radio love-singer, for breaking a 50-50 partnership Lown says they had. Lown said he started Vallee on Broadway ,and "trained him to put a certain sob-like tone in his voice which . . . has proved one of the main sources of his present singing popularity." Replied Sobber Vallee: "The suit is too preposterous to discuss...