Word: robin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wesley Gilliam, park patrolman at Lynchburg, Ya., said he saw a robin pounce on a bullfrog, try to carry him away. The frog was too heavy for the bird, plopped back into the water. The stubborn robin tried again & again, until the bullfrog got a clumsy hold on the bird, pulled it under water, drowned...
...banker (John Halliday) scuttling to Europe with his wife (Myrna Loy) and mistress (Greta Nissen); an aged lens-grinder (Jean Hersholt), using all his savings on a holiday for himself and daughter (Lois Moran); a gang of international rogues; and another rogue (Edmund Lowe) who combines the faculties of Robin Hood, Don Quixote and deus ex machina. He forms a liking for the banker's wife, causes her husband to desert his mistress...
Presently the shipboard newsheet reveals to the lens-grinder that his savings are lost in the failure whose consequences the banker is trying to escape. When the banker is shot in his cabin, the bearded lens-grinder goes to the brig. Robin Hood gets him out, not without severe inconvenience to himself. These and subsidiary developments, neatly compacted, gain force from high-paced direction, employment of frequent opportunities for smart photography. Good shots: a gunfight along the seamy rails and ladders of the engine room; a corridor sign flashing "SILENCE" outside the room in which the banker has been shot...
...York Philharmonic Orchestra there for three weeks. After a program of Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Bach and Brahms (apparently his favorite composer), he was given tokens of esteem in recognition of his ten-year association with the Stadium concerts, set out for Philadelphia to direct the Philadelphia Orchestra concerts in Robin Hood Dell Park. Next he will go to Europe, return in the autumn to conduct his seventh season in Portland...
After two weeks at the Stadium, he will go to Philadelphia where he, too, will conduct a week at Robin Hood Dell...