Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bought up not only Sells-Floto but the other four circuses-Hagenbeck-Wallace, John Robinson, Sparks, Al G. Barnes- grouped with Sells-Floto in American Circus Corp. The property comprised 150 railroad cars, 2,000 animals, 4,500 people...
...division number one man is Walter J. Murphy '37, with Bigelow, Charles D. Robinson '37, Hubert H. Hauck '38, and James M. Wareham '38 following him. The B division is made up of Richard R. Whipple '37, Dr. Roy Lamson, Tutor, Leverett saltonstall '39, Kenneth M. Clark '37, and David M. Curtis '37. In the C division are William N. Dearborn '38, George H. Spencer '38, Robert M. Whittemore '38, James H. Alexandre '38, and Richard E. Bennik...
...Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (by Barre Lyndon; Gilbert Miller, producer) is that highly desirable addition to any theatre season, a smart, smooth, crook play. The fact that the crooks involved are English considerably increases the play's novelty, for Playwright Lyndon's lawbreakers are scarcely the Edward G. Robinson type. They dress shabbily, do not use firearms and are abjectly terrified every time a tall, fatherly police sergeant appears to question or scold them. Even their slang-in which a policeman is a "rozzer," a pal is addressed as "china"- is more quaint than sinister. Thus the great million...
Died. John Ellis Martineau, 63, Federal Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas, onetime (1927-28) Governor of Arkansas, brother-in-law of Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson; of influenza, complicated by heart disease; in Little Rock. Last December he sentenced Paul Peacher after he was convicted of slave-keeping, in the first case ever tried under a 70-year-old anti-slavery statute (TIME...
Today the Vagabond hears Fred N. Robinson, Gurney Professor of English Literature, broadcast, in his beautiful reading voice, a lecture on "Chaucer" from the lectern of Emerson...