Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...screen play from Parker Morell's biography, wisely included apocryphal as well as factual details. Brady (Edward Arnold) is shown ordering a twelve-course dinner and meeting the youthful John L. Sullivan at a café; on the same night he is so overwhelmed by hearing Lillian Russell sing for the first time that he buys her $100 worth of roses. If his relations with both Lillian Russell (Binnie Barnes), who refused to marry him because it might spoil their friendship, and Jane Matthews (Jean Arthur), who refused because she was in love with his best friend, are shown...
...cleverly redecorated and shot from new angles. (Boyer's apartment in Shanghai is the penthouse in Smart Girl; the Stock Exchange bar. the New York cafe.) Smart Girl was previewed six times before its official Hollywood unveiling in an effort to decide whether Pinky Tomlin ought to sing or not. Finally his song was removed but his jackass laughter and owlish solemnity as the milliner's Dummkopf of a son were left in with happy results. He is in real life an Oklahoma crooner who arrived in Hollywood five months ago with $100 in his pocket, half...
...lives in the house. The other brothers arrive early in the morning. Work begins with pointing-machines, chisels, mallets, electric drills and the casting foundry. As many as 100 men are sometimes employed. In old clothes and square paper caps, the five brothers hammer and laugh, shout and sing arias from opera. At noon Attilio or a "Tuscan gentlewoman" named Clementina cooks the roast, spaghetti or chicken, uncorks the Vesuvian wine and the five & guests sit down for a noisy, two-hour meal. Horatio usually washes the dishes afterward. All talk well, laugh easily. Frequent guests at these Renaissance meals...
Warden Lewis Edward Lawes of Sing Sing Prison was in London last week inspecting Scotland Yard. Consequently the nation's most publicized penologist was not on hand to celebrate the initial appearance of a monthly magazine called Prison Life Stories, of which he was billed as editor...
...efforts, I trust that the public will be more fully enlightened on the subject of crime, and thereby able to formulate definite policies concerning that important social question." Farther back in the magazine Publisher Theodore Epstein, who runs a printing plant, took a more sensational tack by advertising: "SING SING . . . ALCATRAZ . . . JOLIET . . . SAN QUENTIN. Do these names and others, mean anything to you? A quarter of a million men and women are behind the bars today of Federal, State, County and City jails or reformatories. Their true stories comprise a veritable book of Arabian Nights for romance, adventure, love, excitement...