Word: woolsey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Girl Crazy (RKO) is a vehicle fit for the comic talents of Robert Woolsey and Ben Wheeler, two funnymen from vaudeville who have lately aroused so much enthusiasm among cinemaddicts that they were last week the principals in an experiment to find a new way of paying actors. Harry Cohn, new president of Columbia Pictures Corp., announced that he had hired Wheeler & Woolsey to make a picture for a royalty on its profits, an arrangement never before tried by a major producing company. If it works. Columbia will try it on other employes...
...Haven, Conn., Dec. 16--The Yale junior prom, the outstanding social event of the year in undergraduate life, will be held on February 26, and the profits, if any, will be contributed for relief of the unemployed. The event will be held in Woolsey Hall, and this year for the first time expenses will be reduced to a minimum. In the past undergraduates have had to pay $15 a couple, but this year the price is to be only...
...mace was presented to the Harvard Law Review last April, by the Honorable J. M. Woolsey, United States District Judge of New York, and will be handled tonight according to the producer of common law courts. The three acting judge, who will preside at the trail are to be ushered in by a marshall...
Clark W. Parker and his son Wyman stood before Federal Judge John Munro Woolsey in Manhattan last week, were fined $11,000 each and sentenced to five years in Atlanta Penitentiary for conspiracy and using the mails to defraud. Worthless was not only $1,250,000 worth of stock in Automotive Royalties Corp. but also that of two previous companies Mr. Parker had formed. Many a mulcted clergyman sadly agreed when Judge Woolsey called him "an enemy to society." Swindler Parker shrugged...
...platform, Mr. Phelps said (with pardonable nervousness), "We who are about to die, salute you."* This mollified the dogs of war, and Jordan began his speech. The crowding in the hall and the clamoring of those outside to be admitted necessitated the sudden transference of the meeting to Woolsey Hall. This was accomplished with noble confusion, but no "jeering." At last installed in Woolsey, Jordan recommenced his speech which was listened to politely for perhaps 20 minutes, when the crowd began drifting outside. There it formed itself into an inevitable parade behind an inevitable band, and marched off about...