Word: rko
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Producer Carroll's tenth durbar is not a perpetual triumph, but it reaches zeniths of one sort and another. A young man named Keith Clark snatches six cigarets, a cigar and finally a pipe from the air, astounds spectators as thoroughly as does Cardini, "The Suave Deceiver" in RKO vaudeville with the same trick. At one point the chorus parades around a dark stage with long glass tubes of rare gases (neon, argon) exposing them to an electro-magnetic field from time to time so that they light up in weird pale colors (''first time...
Excepting the DO-X, the Hutchinson party was the largest yet to attempt a transatlantic crossing in one plane. Besides the four Hutchinsons there were a navigator, radioman, mechanic, and an RKO-Van Buren cinematographer. On their take-off from Floyd Bennett Field. N. Y., the Hutchinsons?George, 30, Blanche, 28, Kathryn, 8, Janet Lee, 6?were uniformed in brown sport coats, buff polo shirts, suede riding breeches. So were the dolls, Kathryn's Patsy Joan and Janet's Patsy...
...Theatre, Manhattan. A professor who had taught him English at Columbia saw him there, secured him a job with the Theatre Guild. He acted in Manhattan for one year, went abroad with a U. S. company, toured France on a bicycle, returned on a cattle boat, performed in television. RKO's Are These Our Children? was his first picture. To emphasize his youthful appearance, he seldom has a haircut and sometimes shows a tendency, wisely controlled in Life Begins, to blubber...
...Vivacious Patricia Reilly ("Pat") Foster was appointed editrix to succeed Editor Harold Norling ("Swanie") Swanson who resigned June i to become story editor of RKO films in Hollywood...
Roar of the Dragon (RKO) is a cinema story of what happens to Occidentals caught in China when good Chinese are away at the wars and the bandits whistle in the treetops. The chief bandit is Voronsky (C. Henry Gordon) whose whispered name is enough to send Chinese Paul Reveres scudding over the country. Huddled against Voronsky's coming are the whites under the leadership of a drunken riverboat captain (Richard Dix). They stand off Voronsky with a machinegun, between intervals of comic relief by Zasu Pitts as a handkerchief-wringing tourist and Edward Everett Horton as a timid...