Word: uptown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prize of $10 has been offered by the Publix Theatres to members of Harvard University for the best review of the movie, "Dishonored," with Marlene Dietrich, which starts tomorrow at the Publix Uptown, Olympia, and Fenway theatres. Ten additional prizes of two tickets each will be given for the next best criticisms...
...want to hear its nightly continuation and not long enough to let them become bored. Served in a lump, the Gosden-Correll humor is less digestible. Amos & Andy stall their cab on Broadway, carry on business as usual in the barnlike headquarters of the Fresh Air Taxi Company in uptown Manhattan. They go to a meeting of the Mystic Order of the Knights of the Sea, talk to Madame Queen on the telephone, mispronounce words of four or more syllables by the formula of substituting "re" for "dis" as in "regusted," and "ul" for "or" as in "incorpulated." The story...
Harold Lloyd in his second talkie, now showing at the Uptown theatre, has escaped the clutches of the Chinese who afforded him so few breathing spells in his first effort, and has returned to the human fly stunts of "Safety Last," his most successful silent film. This time the thrills are even more sensational and apparently more daring...
...taste in typographical layout. Most famed contributor: Roark Whitney Wickliffe Bradford, author of Ol' Man Adam & His Chillun (source of Marc Connelley's Pulitzer prize play, The Green Pastures). Instead of "The Talk of the Town" (New Yorker), the New Orleanian's first pages were headed "Uptown-Downtown-Back of Town." Instead of a "Profile" (New Yorker) the New Orleanian presented a biographical sketch called a "Closeup." First subject: Rabbi Louis Binstock, past president of the Rotary Club, but "Rabbi, not Babbitt," "most popular purveyor of religion in New Orleans," whose Friday-night talks on books...
...Editor. New York cabmen, particularly when in trouble, confide in scholarly, cultured, big-framed Editor Brown. The windowless office adjoining the littered pressroom in the basement of an uptown apartment house has been sanctuary for many a strange confession. But certain it is that Editor Brown never returned the confidence by pointing to his own name (formerly hyphenated Inness-Brown) in New York's Social Register. A graduate and medalist of University of Virginia where he edited the student paper, he drove an ambulance in France in 1916, later joined the ist Division, A. E. F., emerged...