Word: taxi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broker whom he had seen only once before but for whom it was in the Mayor's power to do a potent favor. The broker's name was Joseph A. Sisto. His firm issued the securities of Parmelee Transportation Co. which owns the city's biggest taxi fleet (2,300 cars). Broker Sisto met the Mayor at Atlantic City in the summer of 1929. The following autumn he sent his gift, made "in admiration," around to the City Hall. Later he spoke to the Mayor of the need of municipal taxi regulation to curb low-rate "taxicab...
...Lucerne, Switzerland. The combination results in a triumph for romance. An attempt has been made to put into the picture the confused moral values of Author Barnes's novel, with the new twist confusing them even further. Typical sequence: Ann Harding and her first husband quarrel in a taxi. He gets out, goes to a speakeasy, repents, telephones her to join him. Ann Harding tramps gloomily in and says she is going to have a baby...
Director Clair keeps his characters, action and dialog as natural and human as possible. But the settings, the story, the mood of the direction, are stylized to achieve a dream quality. Director Clair uses anonymities for his leads; Actor Raymond Cordy was a taxi-driver a year ago. Admiration for Charlie Chaplin is shown in mob scenes, chases and stampedes which follow Chaplin's principles of dance and pantomime. Director Clair, 30, was until 1926 a newspaperman whose novel, Adams, a story of Charlie Chaplin, had some success. He joined a Paris experimental art group specializing in cinema, produced...
...Manhattan, a taxi descending Brooklyn Bridge ramp sent a group of pedestrians helter-skelter, bounced off a trolley car, mounted three curbs, dragged a steel traffic cable & stanchions 10 ft., crushed through a newsstand, cracked a subway kiosk, stopped at the head of the subway stairs. Extricating himself uninjured from the wreckage, Chauffeur Jacob Selditch said : "I guess maybe them brakes ought to be tightened...
...Rose Frankerr Arthur J. Beckhard, producer) ably presents a frieze of commonplace figures, the Hallam family, against the background of New York's West Side. A shamming old mother has gained complete ascendancy over three of her four sons, the kind of men who never alight from a taxi without grumbling that they "might as well have bought the cab." But one son (Glenn Anders of Hotel Universe and Strange Interlude) is not quite so tractable. This reaction is due to the fact that he married a girl who dabbles in sculpture and wants something more out of life...