Word: woolsey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, Federal Judge John Munro Woolsey ordered expatriate Poet Walter Lowenfels, co-winner (with e. e. cummings) of the 1931 Aldington Poetry Prize, to pay attorney fees...
...other costs of his plagiarism suit against Authors George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, et al. He charged that their Pulitzer Prize-winning Of Thee I Sing was drawn from his U.S.A. With Music. Commented Judge Woolsey: "In this case, as is usual in plagiarism cases, obscurity is taking a long shot at success. Having failed to reach his mark, the plaintiff must be made to pay for the expense to which he has put the defendants. ... I am faced with page after page of alleged parallelisms of phraseology. Obviously, the plaintiff cannot claim a copyright on words in the dictionary...
...Hold em Jail," the companion picture, is another of Wheeler and Woolsey's uproarious, inane vehicles, in which the two protagonists get railroaded into jail and proceed to win the football game in an inter-prison league. Stadium tactics are hardly in order when our two heroes let loose their bag of tricks, not the least among which are a chloroform-soaked handkerchief and a boomerang pigskin...
Publishing last week first results of a questionnaire addressed to exhibitors. Motion Picture Herald revealed that the most valuable players were Marie Dressier, Janet Gaynor, Joan Crawford and Greta Garbo; Wallace Beery. Will Rogers, Charles Farrell, Clark Gable, Wheeler & Woolsey. Producers lost most of their money on program pictures?pictures of standard length (55 to 60 min.) meant to fit in on any theatre program...
...able to think up a better picture than Girl Crazy, his experiment is unlikely to prove anything. The picture is an adaptation of a Manhattan musicomedy delineating happenings at a dude ranch started by a young Easterner who has been sent west to lead a quiet life. Wheeler & Woolsey arrive at the dude ranch in a taxi. Wheeler i? induced to run for sheriff, an office as dangerous to its incumbent as the presidency of a South American republic. Wheeler giggles constantly; Woolsey chews cigars. A small girl (Mitzi Green) gives impersonations of Bing Crosby, Roscoe Ates, Edna May Oliver...