Word: redheaded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maureen O'Hara is a touchy, spunky, comely 18-year-old, as Irish as a banshee, with a lilting Dublin brogue. Like Mrs. Charles Laughton (Elsa Lanchester) she is a redhead. Before making Jamaica Inn, she studied at the apprentice school of Dublin's famed Abbey Theatre, did bits on the stage for a short time, bits in pictures. Though she was short on experience, one screen test convinced Actor-Producer Laughton that he should cast Maureen O'Hara in Jamaica Inn. Impressed by her success in that picture, RKO last month signed her to play Esmeralda...
Observers last night predicted that Miss Waffle, and Eunice Martin, striking redhead from Waltham, would finish "neck and neck" in the competition...
...tennis who got Donald Budge's number was British Fred Perry. That was in 1934-36, when Budge was just out of the juniors and Perry was the world's No. 1 Amateur. Perry took the redhead over in the Pacific Coast final in '34, the Davis Cup challenge round in '35, at Wimbledon and Forest Hills in '36. Budge beat Perry just twice, in unimportant matches. Then Perry turned professional and Budge went on to unparalleled tennis fame. Last year, for a guaranteed $75,000, Budge joined the pros...
...Almost before the latecomers in the choice $7.70 seats had a chance to count their change, Budge was leading 5-1. Perry changed rackets, but the unsmiling Budge boomed off the seventh game, and the next set was on. For the first four games of this, Perry held the redhead even with a great and foxy effort, but Budge had too much for him. That set ended 6-3. The next ended 6-0. Perry made 67 errors, never once broke Budge's service, had not only lost his Indian sign but his vaunted forehand. But he offered...
King loves redhead, vacates throne; Man bites dog and buries bone...