Word: rooney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make a song about, but it returns two-fisted Cinemactor James Cagney to his theatrical nonage of 1924, when he was just one of the boys tapping routines in vaudeville. Though still unable to startle the dance world, he does unveil a new, more versatile Cagney. As Terry Rooney, Manhattan band leader, he is called to Hollywood for the great opportunity. He leaves his girl, Rita (Evelyn Daw), to wait until he has demonstrated once more how a star is born. Studio specialists on clothes, coiffure, and voice view him with alarm. He refuses a Robert Taylor widow...
Ultimately the picture he has acted in sets cinemaddicts atremble, but Terry Rooney has already thought himself a failure, married Rita, and fled to the South Seas. Returning a famous man, he signs a contract obliging him to fake bachelorhood for seven years. The strain tells first on Rita, who returns to Manhattan, second on Terry, who has been linked to Stephanie (Mona Barrie), the studio siren, in publicity gossip. A large plane winging eastward shows Terry on his way back to Rita, the band and Manhattan. Another good man has broken through the lucred shams of Hollywood...
...late John W. ("Bet a Million") Gates, who is reputed to have wagered that sum on the outcome of a race between two raindrops down a Pullman window. By last week it appeared that such stories may soon have a new hero in the person of Owner Art Rooney of the Pittsburgh (pro football) Pirates...
Ever since he turned up one day at New York's Empire City race track with $1,000 which he shortly ran up to $25,000, Mr. Rooney, who looks a great deal like a football himself, has been turning his every horse hunch to gold. The first day he appeared at Saratoga he won the astounding sum of $108,000. On another day he won $50,000 and on the closing day $15,000. Admiring Bookmaker Tim Mara told how Bettor Rooney had been talking football to a friend at the Saratoga rail when the news was brought...
Last fortnight, when Placid Art Rooney appeared at the opening of the Aqueduct track on Long Island, bookmakers shuddered to hear that in one day he had won $100,000. So far no one has computed how much Rooney has lost, but he is reputed to have $100,000 of his winnings salted safely away in annuities. His smallest, typically lucky wager was $400 he won last fortnight by betting that Tommy Farr would stay 15 rounds against Joe Louis...