Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like its predecessors, this one starts off with George Dwight (Roger Pryor) frantically trying to put together a musi-comedy which displays a constant tendency to fall apart. Rival producers (the "Hobarts") try to buy the controlling interest. The leading lady (Lilian Miles) persuades a gambler friend (Leo Carillo) to foil the Hobarts by buying a piece of the show himself. He promptly loses it in a crap game and Sport Powell (Herbert Rawlinson), who wins it, unnerves Dwight by trying to make a pretty chorus girl (Mary Brian) the leading lady. A tiny vein of originality can be detected...
...affection to Droste who sails off in his completed seadrome. When Ellissen reappears, he concludes that Claire and Droste have been deceiving him, ignores the plaintive bleating of the seadrome's S. O. S. At last he picks up Claire and flies to it. Sabotaged by a rival shipbuilding firm the seadrome is slowly sinking. Ellissen suggests to the crew that they take to the lifeboats. Then his noisy emotions again shift. He decides that the lovers really mean well by him, flies away to summon the proper mechanical help to save the seadrome...
...Chicago batters, one more than the modern record which was jointly held by Frank Hahn, Christy Mathewson, Rube Waddell and Nap Rucker; and in which his catcher, Jimmy Wilson, was enabled to make a record also, with 18 putouts; at St. Louis. Manager Frisch's oldtime rival, Rogers Hornsby, this year his understudy on the Cardinals, last week left the team to become manager of the St. Louis Browns, tail-enders in the American League...
...Elizabeth, N. J., Barber Tony Felice, 56, was arrested for arson when police caught him. scurrying from the gasoline-fired hallway of a rival shop, with his shoes flaming...
...banks closing, of their staying closed, of the reasons why three bank plans collapsed. Result was a potpourri of charges and counter-charges-that the old banks never should have been closed, that they were and still are solvent, that Manhattan bankers, Senator Couzens, the R. F. C. or rival motor makers had stupidly if not maliciously kept Detroit from getting back her banks. Three weeks ago the one-man grand jury recessed to give Edsel Ford a chance to negotiate in peace for formation of a new bank. Last week it recessed again with news that he had virtually...