Word: rolande
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rose Roland, dancer of the Club Mayfair, and the Darling sisters, three singing and dancing girls, will add their bit to the festivities. From two Brown Derby come the Blond Tappers, musical comedy stars. In all these acts, the accompaniment will be provided by Al Zimmerman and his orchestra...
...landscapy charm and budget-eating, Hollywood-inspired bandbox décor. In the ginghamy raiment of a river barge waif, Actress Matthews' sturdy, bike-legged nimbleness seems to belie her Cockney wispyness. But squired to proper-dance frocks and slippers and a fancy stage career by Soup Magnate Roland Young. she dances dainty duos with the U. S.'s Jack Whiting, sings her way to a typical cinemusical fadeout...
...members, the Martin forces won their only important victory. Martin and Frankensteen took the stump personally, and their ticket was returned by nearly 2-to-1. But Detroit's bustling West Side local, with another 30,000 members, re-elected Unity Leader Walter Reuther by 4-to-1. Roland J. Thomas, president of the Chrysler local, a vice president of the international union and an intimate Martin-Frankensteen aide, was defeated by a Unity candidate. The net results in the country as a whole indicated that Unity had gained at the expense of the Progressives...
...Playgoer hopes he has not lost all his credit by praising "There's Always a Breeze," which he thought was funny, but which was apparently not funny, because it would be too bad if no one were to take any stock in the praise about to be lavished on Roland Young in Clare Kummer's new comedy, "Spring Thaw." The theme of this play is certainly no startling innovation: it is a recitation of the difficulties encountered by a middle-aged man trying to retain possession of both his giddy young wife and his wits. Nor is the dialogue...
...Spring Thaw" was written for Roland, and his peculiar talents are catered to throughout. All that was necessary was to put the most obvious analysis of every situation into the tersest from and the simplest language, and to count on Mr. Young to do the rest. For example, when it is offered as an excuse to invite the doctor to dinner that he is still there, Roland drily explains that he won't be if he leaves. Some of the humor is indeed more complex than this sample. Some of it is even vaguely satirical. But none...