Word: robert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cast sitting down with the script writers few days before, sometimes tussling all night with the job. The Circle's, original members were Ronald Colman, a ten-year holdout against radio work; Cinemactress Carole Lombard; Leading Man Gary Grant; Baritone Lawrence Tib-bett; Groucho and Chico Marx; Robert Emmett Dolan and his orchestra. Early guests were Pianist Jose Iturbi, with a swing item in his repertory and "okeydokey" in his vocabulary, and Noel Coward, who upstaged everybody, gave Carole stagefright...
...demanding "to know immediately if the cartoonist has been approached by representatives of somebody interested in injuring the bus business. . . . Needless to say . . ." said Mr. McCabe with needless indirection, "it may be quite difficult for us to persuade [our clients] that any further advertising should be placed." To Colonel Robert Rutherford ("Free dom of the Press") McCormick's news paper only one reply was possible. The Tribune made it in an editorial that bore the imprint of the Colonel's own choleric style. Snapped the "World's Greatest Newspaper": "We're going to continue to edit...
...Young Robert Lane Anderson, who took over the Marion, Va. Democrat (circ. 1,400) and the Republican Smyth County News (circ. 1,600, both printed in the same plant) from his father, Novelist Sherwood Anderson, in 1932. An able graduate of several big city newsrooms, Publisher Anderson repeatedly urges his cattle-raising readers to go in for purebred stock and baits the power company for lower electric rates. He has lately installed a one-man photographic and engraving department that feeds his papers shots of local rabbit hunters, sorority initiations, farmers' wives in town to buy perfume. Best-played...
Honolulu (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Further foot noises by Eleanor Powell, this time executed in a hula hula skirt and applauded by Robert Young...
Stand Up and Fight (Robert Taylor, Wallace Beery, Florence Rice; TIME...