Word: sidney
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Charlie Chan in Reno (Twentieth Century-Fox). A beautiful divorcee gets more than she bargained for, and Charlie Chan II (Sidney Toler) adds another tour to Twentieth Century-Fox's private Baedeker of Crime. He gets the culprit, but there seems to be more chin than Chan in the process...
Author, Author's maestro is Humorist Sidney Joseph Perelman (Dawn Ginsberg's Revenge), who manfully keeps gagging while a collection of fictioneers ad lib stories to fit mystery-tale situations contributed by listeners. Sample situation Why did Little Nell scorn Dick Goodfellow to marry Squire Sourpuss? Regular aides to Perelman are Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee, a detectifiction team known as Ellery Queen. Guests have included Dorothy Parker, Carl Van Doren Heywood Broun, Rupert Hughes, Ruth McKenney, Ludwig Bemelmans, Alice Duer Miller, Henry F. Pringle. Impaired at first by talkiness and the occasional complete blankness of literary minds...
Walter J. Bate '39, of Richmond Ind.; Sidney W. Benson 1G, of New York, N. Y.; Douglas M. Bowen 2G, of Glen Ridge, N. J.; Reed H. Bradford, graduate student at Louisiana State; James H. Bready, Haverford, '39; Nazzareno F. Cerone 1G, of Boston, Mass.; Alden Clarke '39, of Cleveland, O.; Howard F. Cline '39, of Baltimore, Md.; William A. Coates' 1G, of Milton, Mass.; James B. Conacher, graduate student at Queen's University; Milton Game 1G, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Henry L. Crosby, Jr., now at American School of Classical Studies, Athens; Norton B. Crowell, 1G, of Dallas...
...Chicago's South Side 60 years ago Jacob Portis proved better at raising a family than at selling real estate: his eight boys had to sell newspapers. Milton Portis, the eldest (now 62), worked his way through medical school. The two youngest, Bernard and Sidney (now 42 and 45), were put through by their older brothers. Three others, Isadore, Arnold and Theodore, went to work for a hat firm and in 1914 they and the remaining two brothers, Lyon and Henry, set up Portis Brothers Hat Co. They had $23,000 to start with, half borrowed from Dr. Milton...
...story in a benign, careful, unsensational autobiography which contains the best account to date of McClure's great days. She was freelancing in Paris in 1892, when a slight, restless, sandy-haired young man bounded up the 80 steps to her apartment, announced that he was Samuel Sidney McClure, said he could stay only ten minutes, talked over plans for articles for hours, rushed off to Switzerland after borrowing $40 from his future star contributor...