Word: sid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about an adolescent taking his first look at the grown-up world of 1906. Ah Wilderness! is notable also for one of those curiosities of billing that cinema contracts sometimes bring about. Wallace Beery, billed as the star, plays what amounts to an expanded bit-part. He is Uncle Sid, affable and alcoholic parasite who sponges a living in the family of Nat Miller, smalltown newspaper publisher. Nat Miller is played by Lionel Barrymore whose part, though written down considerably from the play, is still an important one and who gets second billing. The real lead (Richard) is Eric Linden...
...Rags is Max Kalik, fiftyish, a suave, affluent bookmaker noted for his $200 suits, his good manners and his sporty English cashier, Sidney ("Sir Sid-ney") Gooch, who wears loud tweeds and speaks with a Cockney accent. A onetime Manhattan ragman, "Kid Rags" operates the biggest book at the smartest U. S. track, Belmont Park, finds most of his trade in Wall Street, specializes in bets from...
...vimmin running around poodle-naked und throwing medicine balls! Ridiculous! Now you take me. Effery morning of my life at seven o'clock in de morning I valk down de railroad traggs in Sout' Braintree Massajusetts until I am in de voods. And den I sid on a rock, and take off all my glothes and schmoke a tsigar and rhead Omar Kayyam. But do I have to choin a Verein? Do I haf to have a Praesident und a Honorary Praesident...
...Jazzman Davis did not consider the words quite "respectful" enough for the White House, he asked Mr. Porter to add some more fitting rhymes-perhaps something of a salute to President Roosevelt. The Yaleman (Class of 1913) who wrote "Bulldog. Bulldog" replied that he was "too busy." Therefore one Sid Kuller was commissioned to do the job. Last week the Meyer Davis orchestramen chanted the following conclusion...
...stage review this week is called "Round Boston Town," with Sid Gary, radio baritone. As usual it is capable routine stuff, but one gets the feeling that vaudeville as such is creeping towards the last stages of moribundity...