Word: roache
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Accompanied by Hollywood Producer Hal Roach, Vittorio Mussolini, 21. eldest son of Il Duce, sailed on the Rex for the U. S., where he will learn U. S. movie production methods prior to starting an Italian company backed 50% by Producer Roach...
...Hollywood, Producer Hal Roach (Our Gang comedies) has arranged a string of Hollywood scenes calculated to spotlight Haley and Kelly in their inoffensive cutups. Taken to a nightclub by Lopez, Cecilia and Nellie see Joe, employed as a waiter, pretend that he is a performer, stumble into a bit of clowning which costs him his job. On a visit to a studio, they watch Lyda Roberti undulate, meet Laurel & Hardy who burlesque handsomely as mustached Mexican bandits. While Nellie casually knocks out Laurel & Hardy with a champagne bottle, Rinaldo snakes Cecilia away to his apartment where he starts to seduce...
Those cinemaddicts whose weakness is Laurel & Hardy, but who prefer to get these characters in short, excruciating doses, should be pleased with Pick a Star. Little Mr. Laurel and fat Mr. Hardy are presented in their own persons as stars on a comedy lot, apparently that of Mr. Roach. Says Simpleton Laurel to the di rector: "When am I supposed to look dumb...
...first two seasons, the track, which cost $1,000,000, made $1,350,000 for its promoters, chief among whom are Cinema Producer Hal Roach and a onetime San Francisco chain-parlor dentist named Charles Strub. Last year, Santa Anita bettors wagered more than $25,000,000, of which the State took $1,000,000. Last week, bets on the Handicap alone were $396,553, a record. Santa Anita's backers have put much of their profits into improvements. This year they are spending $25,000 on Peruvian olive trees in the paddock, Bird of Paradise plants...
...Manhattan's most oddly located churches is Calvary Baptist, a stronghold of pure Fundamentalism in West 57th Street within denouncing distance of bars, smart shops, noisy apartment hotels, racy night clubs. Sounding board of the late loud Dr. John Roach Straton, Calvary is seldom without a guest evangelist who fills its auditorium not with the demimonde from nearby streets but with mousy Manhattanites in no need of evangelization. Last week when the news papers were still carrying dispatches from Tennessee where a nine-year-old girl had become a bride (TIME, Feb. 8, 15), news hawks turned...