Word: warner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second century run; Jackson of Yale beat out J. H. Dean '34 in the shotput for a clean record; E. I. David, diminutive sprinter clocked a record 220-yard run for the Light Blue; Mabey of Oxford ran a beautiful two-mile race for an easy meet championship; and Warner of Yale was strong as ever in the quarter-mile run, nosing out Captain N. P. Dodge '33. The only old record which held really aloof from the meet was the Broad Jump of 1921, 25 feet, 3 inches. W. L. Hasler '34 scored an upset when he won this...
...current revival of cinemas with music, Warner Brothers, who claim that they started the cycle with 42nd Street and Gold Diggers of 1933, favor backstage romances, staged with super-Ziegfeldian extravagance. Samuel Goldwyn surrounds Eddie Cantor with girls and animals. Universal, sceptical of the new vogue, was last week completing a cheap ($100,000) cinemusicomedy, partly financed by two Manhattan shoestring producers and produced at Paramount's Long Island lot, which has been disused for two years...
Baby Face (Warner) is notable mainly because, when the Hays organization ordered portions of it changed, it caused one of the studio rows between Darryl Zanuck and Harry Warner as a result of which Zanuck quit Warners, formed a new company called Twentieth Century Pictures, Inc. to release films through United Artists. A morose and timidly salacious study of the life and loves of a saloon keeper's daughter (Barbara Stanwyck), it shows her flirting to get a job in a bank, rolling an eye at the department manager, arousing the lower nature of the cashier, finally having...
...Life of Jimmy Dolan (Warner) concerns principally a rowdy, champagne-guzzling prize-fighter (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) who kills a reporter with a blow of his fist on the night that he wins the light heavyweight championship of the world. His manager, running away in the fighter's car, gets burned to death in an accident; his charred corpse is mistaken for the fighter's. This gives the fighter a chance to change his name from Jimmy Dolan to Jack Daugherty. He wanders out West as a hobo until he comes to a happy little farm where a girl...
...manages to make his fisticuffs seem lively. I Loved You Wednesday (Fox) is the account of one exciting evening in the career of an indecisive danseuse named Vicki Meredith (Elissa Landi). At the beginning of the evening she is planning to elope with a dynamic but gentle civil engineer (Warner Baxter). Before they have time to arrange the details, she has a caller, Randall Williams (Victor Jory) who hopes that Vicki still remembers their romance which ended years before when he told her he was married. Through cocktails and a supper party in a speakeasy, where she meets Mrs. Randall...