Word: rubes
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...characteristic cry, "Haro! Haro!" . . . became the especial property of the troubadours, clowns and jongleurs . . . Today, it is the familiar circus cry, "Hay Rube!" or "Hey Rube!" which calls on everyone connected with the circus to come to the aid of the one to whom wrong is done...
...rolls were still in good condition; the problem was how to re-record them. Columbia was eager to try and, with the help of a Welte engineer, managed to rig up the huge original Rube Goldbergian player so the rolls could be played back. Simonton and a French engineer recorded the music on tape...
...film places the action in a sort of opéra-bouffe Dogpatch in central Europe, in Napoleonic times. Kaye is not the knave of Gogol's play but a good-hearted rube. A half-starved outcast from a medicine show, he is mistaken by the crooked mayor (Gene Lockhart) and his henchmen-relatives for Napoleon's feared inspector general traveling incognito. Then, hardly grown into his splendid Techncolored uniform and the hungry affections of the mayor's wife (Elsa Lanchester), Kaye becomes a cat's-paw and fall guy for the scoundrelly medicine-show boss...
...combined paper quickly signed up the Sun's Drama Columnist Ward Morehouse, Sport Columnist Grantland Rice, Paragraphs H. I. ("Hi") Phillips. Columnist George Sokolsky* switched his column to Hearst's Journal-American; Pulitzer Prizewinning Cartoonist Rube Goldberg also jumped to the JA. Such by liners as Reporter Mike Johnson, 82-year-old Henry McBride, dean of U.S. art critics, and Washington Correspondent Phelps Adams would have little trouble landing jobs. But heartbroken Executive Editor Speed was "looking for a hobby," and most of the Sun's staff of 1,200 editorial, business and mechanical employees were looking...
...landlady hints that her reputation is not without stain. As she is packing to leave, the new tenant moves in. It is a young saxophone player from Minneapolis, a clean-cut young man. He tells her she can share the room with him. She thinks he's an innocent rube, he thinks she's a super-cynic...