Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paramount, RKO-Radio, Columbia) set up the Bureau of New Plays, with canny Theresa Helburn (see p. 55) at the helm, offered advances on royalties, fellowships; hoped to corner young talent. Now in its second year, the Bureau has paid awards, but has so far found no play worth producing, so the film companies are once more ready to do business with Broadway...
...Joliet, Ill., Taxidriver Guy Tremper picked up a fare who asked to be shown the bright lights. After $40 worth of sightseeing, the fare jumped from the taxi, disappeared. At police headquarters' rogues' gallery, Driver Tremper identified his fare as one Floyd Earl, who was known to have only $10 because he had that day been released from Stateville prison after serving eleven years for burglary...
...second pony. In return for Jody's putting in a summer's hard work, Farmer Tiflin lays out $5 to breed their own mare Nellie. Jody dedicates himself completely to Nellie's prenatal care, to giving his father more than his five-dollar's worth. When complications develop at the delivery, the hired hand kills Nellie with a hammer, and in a gory Cesarean delivers Jody his promised colt...
...authors have working-class backgrounds. Tough, popular, sentimental hero of This Man, Joe Murray falls hard for a beautiful, chaste Polish girl, blames himself when she is run over by a train. Marrying without love, he exorcises the dead girl's memory, realizes his wife's worth only after a too jauntily told, bitter period of Unemployment and bumming. Night at Hogwallow is a bloodcurdling first work 'aid in the deep South, its lynch-life melodrama ending in a fierce finale...
...today in an age when students come to college primarily to study, more than ever before, no extra-curricular activity can succeed unless it has something material to offer the student. The student has little to offer the activity. If he cannot "play on the team", it is not worth his while to leave his books...