Word: towns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Each Dawn I Die (Warner Bros.-First National) winks at the Hays Code, which frowns on teaching cinemaddicts how to commit crimes, by illustrating a practically foolproof way to commit one. When Frank Ross (James Cagney), a fresh reporter, presses too close to the racketeers running his home town, the boys slug him, douse him with whiskey, prop him behind the steering wheel of a car and head it toward a crowded intersection. The result starts Jimmy off on a long term for manslaughter and gives Fellow Prisoner Hood Stacey (George Raft) his opportunity to meet "the first really square...
...Angeles' swank Town House staged, at Warners' instigation, a dinner for 26 males who decided she had more "oomph"' than any girl in town. "Oomph," said Dudley Field Malone, "is a very beautiful thing that convention demands be clothed." Said Screenwriter Graham Baker: "Oomph is something in a girl which begets propositions not proposals, gets her chased instead of chaste." As the Oomph Girl, Cinemactress Sheridan was more photographed, talked about, gossip-columned than any recognized Hollywood star...
...conventions say or do, are the cornerstone of the Baptist faith. In its week of oldtime oratory and hymn-singing, the Atlanta congress was to hear much of the need for Baptist evangelism, for Baptist freedom of worship in a troubled world. The messengers, most of them sober small-town businessman and their sober wives, eschewed Atlanta's worldly amusements, fraternized with one another and with messengers from overseas. In Atlanta were Baptists from Rumania, from Spain; fourteen Baptists came from Latvia. The Latvians were all one family: Rev. William Fetler, prison worker, his wife and twelve children...
When dressy, horsy Grover Aloysius Whalen unveiled his $157,000,000 New York World's Fair last April, he figured that out-of-town customers would be storming its gates by July 1. Instead of a Big Push he got an attendance so low that he was moved fortnight ago to start making reduced rates (reduced parking fees, bargain admissions for large groups) to fairgoers. Last week...
...shirt manufacturer he was working for decided to take a flier in shorts. During the six years they worked together for Columbia, Capra & Riskin turned out a dazzling string of critical and box-office successes, Lady For a Day, Broadway Bill, It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Lost Horizon, You Can't Take It With You. They won their share of Oscars and some of the biggest money in the business. Last year they parted when Samuel Goldwyn offered Riskin a five-year contract (reportedly worth $1,000,000) as an associate producer. Hollywood guessed that...