Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vice president of the Grace Lines, with his pretty wife. The weather was not bad: at Bakersfield the ceiling was 3,500 ft., at Burbank 3,000 ft. The peaks on both sides of the course were garlanded with scattered clouds. Delayed slightly, Pilot Edwin W. ("Soapy") Blom, a veteran of 18 years' flying, radioed Burbank that he would arrive at 7:37, seven minutes late...
Central figure in the show is the U. S. "Secretary of Entertainment" in an unnamed President's Cabinet. Impersonated by old Joe Whitehead, one of Madison Street's great grey-derby-&-checked-veit comics 30 years ago, this character is a veteran ham determined to spend lots of government money on actors in spite of the "Secretary of the Budget," Al Smith, the Liberty League and an unrealistically tight-fisted committee of U. S. Senators. Very much on the awful, side of O Say Can You Sing? are some of the unbelievably corn-fed wisecracks which Librettists...
...have a slightly different situation. Both the devil and the sissy are the pert, Fauntleroy-like Freddie Bartholomew, who distinguishes himself above his older colleagues, where acting is required. In places the reform story of the son of an executed murderer and the son of a voluble A.E.F. veteran who made "the world safe for democracy," drags. It is maudlin to hear the judge in the juvenile court make friends with the boys, suspected of a burglary, by telling them the devil failed to be an angle because he wasn't tough enough. Elsewhere it moves with the pace characteristic...
Centering the third line will be Joe Patrick, sophomore and a new-comer to Crimson hockey, who is a tricky, but not too fast, skater. The veteran John Callaway will hold down the left wing position while Freddie deRahm, another Sophomore, will team with him from the right...
...outstanding Tech boxers, Wold in the 135's and Bob Treat in the heavies, will be met by two Crimson fighters noted for punching power, John Weston and Henry Lloyd, respectively. Veteran Jim Kestarelcs in the 125's, Dwight Ellis in the 145's, Al Corbett in the 155's, and Sam Shaw in the 175's will go after their first victories...