Word: taxi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were in court: the rector's wife, who sat among the witnesses, and a dark mysterious woman in scarlet who sat in the balcony, never spoke, fascinated the gentlemen of the Press. White-haired Dr. Davidson rushed into court breathless, flustered, 20 minutes late, followed by an infuriated taxi-driver who shouted that the defendant had slipped him a penny instead of a half-crown for his fare. Throughout the trial the rector had trouble with taximen. One day he had to borrow his fare from a reporter. Chief witness was 17-year-old Barbara Harris, who first complained...
...main fighting strength of the Navy took a holiday last week. In the harbors of San Pedro'and San Diego. Calif., 152 grey vessels of the combined Scouting and Battle Forces swung lazily with the tide, while ship's boats and taxi launches plied among them like water fleas carrying most of the U. S. Fleet's 45.000 personnel to shore and liberty. One night a great officers' ball was held at Los Angeles, and during the week Fleet athletic championships-boxing, swimming, wrestling, rowing, baseball, basketball-flexed the muscles and raised the shouts of bluejackets...
...Hour With You (Paramount). A memorable moment in this picture arrives when Roland Young is telling Maurice Chevalier that he has evidence that Chevalier has been misbehaving with his wife. He explains that he has had Chevalier watched by detectives. He says: "At 2:35 you got into a taxi in which my wife was waiting. At 2:43 the taxi stopped outside my house." Then, slightly apologetic for describing a sequence of events with which Chevalier must already be familiar, he stops himself and asks: "Am I boring...
...than Girl Crazy, his experiment is unlikely to prove anything. The picture is an adaptation of a Manhattan musicomedy delineating happenings at a dude ranch started by a young Easterner who has been sent west to lead a quiet life. Wheeler & Woolsey arrive at the dude ranch in a taxi. Wheeler i? induced to run for sheriff, an office as dangerous to its incumbent as the presidency of a South American republic. Wheeler giggles constantly; Woolsey chews cigars. A small girl (Mitzi Green) gives impersonations of Bing Crosby, Roscoe Ates, Edna May Oliver and George Arliss. A girl named Kitty...
...insurance fraud. Thanks to three or four obviously arch-villains who intermittently sneak about the dark corners of the stage the suspense is kept until the final unveiling of the Gray Shadow at the end of Act Three. Humor is provided by the village constable, and Joe Pepper the Taxi Driver, while Love is rather cursorily introduced by Diana Trent, the Ward of one of the villains, and Martin Scott, an inspector from the insurance company when the rest of the cast is excitedly chasing a man in a gray sheet. In fact this play has a little...