Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Social Lion (Paramount) No particular wit of dialog or situation makes this picture sparkle, yet it sparkles; its story is unremarkable, yet continuously entertaining. It concerns a prizefighter who loses an important fight because he takes seriously an opponent who tells him his shoe is untied. Later, having returned to his original profession of spark-plug cleaning, he plays polo for his home-town team and makes love to a society girl. Jack Oakie performs these activities with the necessary absurdity, and with wonderfully skillful, probably unconscious character reading. Like all true comedians, his fooling is human and remotely pathetic...
...program for Saturday is as follows: Banjo Club The Woman in the Shoe Brown Specialty Act Clog dancing by E. N. Hunting '33 Vocal Club Winter Song Bullard Rolling Down to Rio German Specialty Act Accordian numbers by Edward Yeomans Jr. '33 Banjo Club Sing You Sinners from "Honey" Football Medley Speciality Singing trio--J. L. Hutter Jr. '33. H. R. Herrmann '33, and John Heard Jr. '33 Vocal Club Battle of Jericho arr. by Bartholomew Talk about Jerusalem arr. by O'Hara Harvard Songs Specialty Act Magician--James DeRoode '33 Gold Coast Orchestra...
...Woman in the Shoe and Wrapped in a Red, Red Rose (Brunswick)?The Brevities Male Quartet bids fair to rival the Revelers (popular Victor quartet) with their original rhythms and harmonies...
...advance copies in time to mail them to South America before the release date, but were absolutely forbidden to mail to the U. S. The Ford method was imported in Czechoslovakia, high wages and all, by Thomas Bat'a (TIME. Oct. 8, 1928). He is now the undisputed shoe tycoon of Europe, but unpopular. Socialist sheets charge that he pays his men double, then exacts triple and quadruple work from them. Germans believe in a modified kind of Fordization called "rationalization." A rationalizer gives his men better tools and machinery, drives them harder, but does not pay higher wages...
...potent house, closely affiliated with J. P. Morgan & Co., Guggenheim Bros. is in its second generation. No. i Guggenheim was Meyer, born in Switzerland in 1828, emigrating to the U. S. 19 years later. In Philadelphia, No. i Guggenheim vended various things, but first began making large profits through shoe-polish and glue. In 1872 he entered the embroidery business, taking into the firm his four eldest (of seven) sons: Daniel, Murry, Solomon, and Simon...