Word: robin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...technique of casting them in roles related to but not identical with their activities in real life. This scheme has worked well with such heterogeneous oddities as the Dionnes, Sonja Henie, Lily Pons and Max Baer. The Arkansas Traveler can be regarded as another example of the same school. Robin Burns is a 42-year-old Arkansan who grew up in Van Buren, Ark., became an itinerant laborer, vaudeville comedian and hobo until he joined the Marines in 1917. Most noteworthy achievement of Robin Burns up to this time was the invention and mastery of the bazooka, a homemade horn...
...Epstein '39, Robert H. Goldman '39, Raymond J. Harris '40, Enno R. Hobbing '40, Ward McL. Hussey '40, Stanley H. Kapner '40, James Malcolmson '40, Sanford M. Marshall '41, Langdon P. Marvin, Jr. '41, Jack Orloff '41, Henry Oyen '41, James J. Pattee, Jr. '41, F. Welch Peel '39, Robin Scully '40, Harry M. Shooshan, Jr. '39, Howard J. Snyder...
There is one further quality that Rodgers brings to his music which perhaps gives him the edge over such peers as Irving Berlin, Arthur Schwartz, Walter Donaldson, Kern, Youmans and great and gaudy Hollywood hack teams like Warren & Dubin and Robin & Rainger. Richard Rodgers is not only the master of a tonal palette filled with surprise and delight, but he is constantly at search for new forms across the known boundaries of his medium. The dream music for Peggy-Ann, and twelve years later for Married An Angel, the "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" ballet music for On Your Toes...
Engaged. William Keighley, 45, cinema director (Green Pastures, The Adventures of Robin Hood); to Cinemactress Genevieve Tobin, 33, never before married; in Hollywood...
...Wichita, Kans. last week, 26 of the best sand-lot teams in the country, the winners of district, State and regional contests, batted it out under floodlights for the U. S. semi-pro championship. After a two-week round robin, the Buford (Ga.) Bona Allens, who came to the tournament with a record of 96 victories in 112 games this season, went home with a purse of $5,000 and the national title...