Word: rooney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edward B. Marks was a hook & eye salesman, peddling songs on the side, when he decided to go into music publishing. The big songs then were "Annie Rooney" (1890), "Daisy Bell" (1892), "My Sweetheart's the Man in the Moon" (1892), "The Sidewalks of New York" (1894). Marks wrote a lyric, "The Lost Child." Joe Stern, a necktie salesman, wrote the music. They plugged their product with colored lantern slides which showed a policeman encountering in the streets a waif, who at the station house turns out to be his long-lost daughter...
...cowboy hat. But both appear, Mix as headman of an itinerant Wild West Show, Tony as his factotum. The function of Mix and Tony never varies in the cinema; they are an equestrian first-aid kit, a rescue team. This time they rescue the small king of Alvonia (Mickey Rooney) twice: first when the horses of the Wild West stage coach, in which he is getting a free ride, run away; next when the bad prime minister of Alvonia has imprisoned the king and his faithful tutor in a dungeon and is planning to drown them both by flooding...
...Ninties," Magic Lantern; "Jolly Fellow Walz," Vollstedt; "The Fortune Teller," Herbert; "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep," Knight; popular song hits (Tara-ra-Boom-de-ay. The Bowery, The Sidewalks of New York, Sweet Rosie O'Grady, Daisy Bell, A Bicycle Built for Two, Comrades, Little Annie Rooney, She May Have Seen Better Days, The Band Played On, After the Ball, Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight...
Police, checking up on Mr. Rooney's career, brought to light this record: In 1907, aged 18, he was sent to the House of Correction for larceny. Ten years later he was acquitted of murdering a man during a labor meeting. In 1922 he was present at the slaying of two other men, for which Thomas J. Walsh, then union leader, was tried. Boss Rooney succeeded Boss Walsh...
...present Mayoralty campaign. Boss Rooney switched allegiance from the Thompson faction to the Democratic candidate, Anton J. Cermak. Observers wondered if this had been Boss Rooney's fatal mistake...