Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This problem may have suggested the plot of Footlight Parade, about a dunce director who has a hard time thinking up new routines, finds that his rival promptly steals them. The novelty in the backstage romance in Footlight Parade consists in having it occur not in the wings of a theatre hut in a cinema studio where James Cagney is the dance director, Joan Blondell his affectionate secretary, Ruby Keeler his star tap-dancer, Dick Powell his best juvenile, Guy Kibbee his fenag-ling partner. Philip Faversham, son of famed William Faversham who was a matinee idol 30 years...
...poverty which eventually broke over Machado's bespectacled head and threatens to keep the situation in constant turmoil until the cause is removed. If you are a liberal, the cause is simply the stupid tariff. If you happen to be a Marxist, the cause is the economic conflict between rival sugar interests which produced the tariff and which will keep it there; which cast off the Phillipines because of their competition in the same field, and which (if the forces are anywhere near being equal) will prevent either the annexation or the dropping of Cuba, leaving her stranded in chaos...
...they can (which is little enough) to help in the present crisis. Their experimentation really will benefit the future. While in actual fact the epidemic itself, in virulence, incidence, after effects (in this form) or mortality is no more dreadful than an influenza epidemic. Yet it will rival beer as the disease that made St. Louis famous...
...format, began cleaning house. First to go were Editor Julian Starkweather Mason and Managing Editor Ralph Renaud. The Post will be reduced from eight columns to five, will become the second conservative tabloid in the U. S.* There was still a possibility that Publisher Martin's hustling rival, Publisher Julius David Stern of the Philadelphia Record, would buy the Post this week, try to rebuild its shrunken circulation (86,000 last March). By-Line Business...
...friendship with a jolly gangster named Tony Gazotti. Not especially disheartened, Lawyer Durant presently has a chance to laugh last. His fiancée's next admirer (Phillips Holmes) is accused of murdering a onetime sweetheart at a penthouse party. The real murderer is another gangster, rival to Gazotti, named Jim Crelliman (C. Henry Gordon). Lawyer Durant brings him to justice, forms what looks like a lasting attachment with the sleek underworld girl (Myrna Loy) who helps him. Adapted from a story by Arthur Somers Roche and ably directed by William S. Van Dyke-whose specialty heretofore has been...