Word: warner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sued. Warner Brothers Pictures Inc. and Vitaphone Corp.; by J. Harold Hardy, Georgia chain gang warden; for $1,000,000 each for "vicious, untrue and false attacks" in Warner's film / Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, cinematized from Fugitive Robert Elliott Burns's book (TIME, Jan. 2); in Atlanta...
...manages to give it pathos and simplicity. Tom Lee is Ramon Novarro with his sideburns shaved off far above his ears. The rest of a strikingly Caucasian cast plays in the tradition for oriental melodrama-keeping the right hand in the left coat sleeve and saying little. Warner Oland as the Chinese gambler seems most at home in his surroundings. He gives out a few aphorisms left over from his performances as Charlie Chan and wears his hair in a braid so long that it serves as a queue for the most exciting scene in the picture-when Helen Hayes...
Silver Dollar (Warner). In Denver, Colo., where a theatre and a telephone exchange are named for him, Horace Austin Warner Tabor is well remembered. "Haw" Tabor was born in 1830. He grew up in Vermont, went to work for and married the shrewish daughter of a Maine stonecutter. Heading West, young Tabor and his wife farmed in Kansas for a few years, then pushed on to prospect for gold in Colorado. Haw Tabor took to running a general store. In return for $64 worth of supplies, two German silver-diggers gave him a one-third interest in anything they found...
...only thing that Warner Brothers had to fear in making a picture about Haw Tabor was that the facts of 'his life, as reported in Author David Karsner's book Silver Dollar, would seem too theatrical. This danger was averted in a skillful continuity by Carl Erickson and Harvey Thew and in an amazingly successful impersonation of Haw Tabor (called Yates Martin in the picture) by Edward G. Robinson. Robinson makes Yates Martin what Haw Tabor very likely was-a gay, growling, vain man, dazzled and delighted by a world which, for a time, seemed made of silver...
...Warner Brothers exploited Silver Dollar cleverly. Before the picture was nationally released last week, they distributed 12,000 silver dollars in change to patrons who bought tickets at the Strand Theatre in Manhattan. To a special opening in Den ver three weeks ago (in the Denver Theatre, near the Tabor Grand Opera House which is now a cinema theatre) so many notables were invited that the premiere was Denver's most brilliant since the Tabor Grand Opera House opened its dcrors in 1881 with Maritana. Among the notables who failed to attend...