Word: baer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arthur ("Bugs") Baer...
...Dorgan ("Tad") put a little dog in his pictures who barked "balogna"; the term was not, like some of Tad's, his own. "Blessed event," "phttf and "middle-aisle" by Winchell are too conscious to be slang; "whoopee," old when he first used it, is already obsolete. "Bugs" Baer's small Hearst column contains wisecracks like "ears like handles on a loving cup" which are the opposite of slang. Ring Lardner, who died a week after Sime Silverman, was usually careful to avoid inventions of his own, stuck close to the jargon of baseball. Columnist Damon Runyon mixes...
...column in the New York tabloid Daily Mirror read: "If I were king I would throttle the swift talker who got me to consent to serve on the board of governors for the planned Fleetwood Beach Club at Long Beach. N. Y., just because Eddie Cantor. George Jessel, Bugs Baer. Mark Hellinger and others were so gullible. The enterprise, it appears, is being worked along the lines of another 'racket,' to which I am opposed and I hope others won't invest in the damb thing because our names are being prostituted...
William S. Van Dyke (Trader Horn, White Shadows of the South Seas, Tarzau the Ape Man, The Prizefighter and the Lady), is the director whom Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer assigns regularly to nature stories or, by analogy, pictures with leading men like Johnny Weissmuller or Max Baer. For Eskimo, he and a staff of 42 assistants including Chef Emile Ottinger of Hollywood's Roosevelt Hotel spent $1.500,000 and nine months on location at Teller, Alaska, 100 mi. below the Arctic Circle. Less courageous than they appear to be in the picture, the Eskimo extras whom Van Dyke hired...
...plot deals both with gangsters and with prizefighters; consequently, it is pretty dull. Myrna Loy is the mistress of Otto Kruger, as the big-time crook and gambler, Willie Ryan. She meets Max Baer, whom she loves because "he is a big kid." In altruistic fashion, Ryan gives her up; naturally, she has her troubles with her boxer, since he is very healthy and cannot be satisfied with one woman. Nevertheless, the picture ends happily in a terrific match between Baer and Carnera, and in established love between the central couple...