Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left off. Scholarly by temperament, a sagacious commentator on Latin poets, Greek dramatists, French fiction, he combines these academic pursuits with a love of the theatre, writes comedies (The Crime in the Whistler Room, This Room, This Gin and These Sandwiches] in which characters akin to those of F. Scott Fitzgerald are shown wound up with less outspoken intellectuals. In his desire to see the U. S. at firsthand Critic Wilson once bought a motorcycle, gave it up after he had run into a ditch and been arrested because he had neglected to buy a license. Now living in Stamford...
Accepting nothing but the title of Kate Douglas Wiggin's pig-tailed story, "Rebecca" makes a brave effort to amuse. Surrounded by pleasant people (Gloria Stuart, Randolph Scott, Bill Robinson, Slim Summerville), Miss Temple gives a mature and finished performance within a plot that seems somewhat septuagenarian. It is about Little Miss America, her starched Aunt Miranda, and a vigorous radio executive, and it ends in music...
...Junior, Scott Long, the other foil wielders are Crannie Jones and Al Labastie, a pair of Sophomores, who last year were instrumental in beating the Eli cubs...
...Austic Scott has been playing on one of the wings, where he has played on the team for the past two years. Weighing only 160 pounds, Austie is always in the thick of it. Fred Smith, a member of Princeton's rugby team of last spring, is on the other wing so far, fighting it out for the berth with Bob Cummings and Tom Gophart, who held the position a year...
Pianist Harney, who had toured the West and Midwest long before he started the craze in Manhattan, launched a nation-wide school of ragtime composers, active during the early 1900s. Prominent followers included Lucky Roberts (Pork and Beans), Scott Joplin (Maple Leaf Rag), Northrup & Confare (Cannon Ball), George Botsford (Texas Steer Rag), and Earl K. Smith (Hot Ashes). Oldtimers who heard Harney do his stuff, recall that his playing sounded very much like that of Zez Confrey (Kitten on the Keys), a little like Fats Waller...