Word: roy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that his new brokerage business is dishonestlv bankrupt, that his fiancee is unfaithful. He imports his entire Chicago staff, sells back the brokerage business with the aid of machine guns, gets engaged to his secretary, turns his private polo field into a playground for his gunmen. Briskly directed by Roy Del Ruth, all this makes a highly satisfactory addition to the Robinson series on racketeers at work and play, at home and abroad-a series which may eventually be regarded as the most interesting and most typical in the U. S. cinema of its period. Good shot: Bugs Ahearn trying...
...into the hands of Scripps-Howard two years ago to be merged into the New York World-Telegram, the new owners had to reckon with the resentment that is directed at anyone who has a hand in scrapping a respected newspaper. As defense against the charge of "Munseyism"* Publisher Roy Wilson Howard declaimed: "The consolidation means not the death of the New York World but its rebirth." Last week Scripps-Howard could point with pride to evidence of its sincerity. The World-Telegram was awarded the 1932 Pulitzer Prize for "the most disinterested and meritorious public service rendered...
...play opens in cheerless Cottage D of a midwestern reform school. Onto this scene is led a collection of small, wary ruffians: Little Deadman ("He won't let nobody touch him"); pudgy Pieface; Horsethief, whose malady is obscure and horrid. Poison mean is Roy Wells (John Drew Colt), ringleader of the potato-peeling "Centipede's Club." Robert Locket (Edwin Philips) is the most sensitive young prisoner, a fact which early bodes him ill. In him Mrs. Sanger, wife of the weak cottage supervisor, takes a strange and unnatural interest...
...Operagoers many a summer season in the past, takes the part of Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner who finds himself in danger of having to execute himself. Yum-Yum, one of his wards, is Hizi Koyke. Her suitor, the Mikado's wandering minstrel son, is played by Roy Cropper, a young man with a pleasingly liquid tenor...
Newcomb Carlton, 64, president of Western Union Telegraph Co. was last week reported about to retire to the chairmanship, to be succeeded as president by Roy Barton White, president of Central Railroad of New Jersey...