Word: bumpkin
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...Chicagoans, Father Dearborn is as familiar as Uncle Sam. In newspaper cartoons he is a corn-fed bumpkin in a plug hat and jack boots, wearing a spade beard. Who originated the symbol of Chicago is a mystery. John T. McCutcheon, dean of Chicago cartoonists, remembers him as far back as 1895, denies parentage. Many a Chicagoan was surprised and pleased last week to learn that Father Dearborn was not only a cartoon but a real though long-buried hero, who wore a cocked hat and a peruke and the uniform of the Continental Army. He was never in Chicago...
...Nova Scotia's Angler Kenney, apologies. No bumpkin, Champion Kenney is also his town's foremost photographer and baseball pitcher...
...offers two excellent comedies. Robert Montgomery and Franchot Tone, as two of the loves in "Three Loves has nancy," account for the success of this film and give smooth portrayals of drunken, debonair men about town. Janet Gaynor is cast in the role of Nancy, a wide-eyed little bumpkin who comes to New York, churns her own butter, smiles at strange men and strikes a note of innocence and simplicity in the empty, superficial lives of her aforementioned loves. Although Miss Gaynor takes her mission a little too seriously and detracts from what was meant to be a tongue...
Unfortunately, Cinemactor Scott's long upper lip and narrow eyes tend to give him the look of an uncouth frontier bumpkin...
...personalities who have made a hit on other stages. Letter of Introduction thus serves as a vehicle for Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, who function simply as themselves. Ventriloquist Bergen introduces a rival to Charlie in the person of a dummy named Mortimer. Minute effigy of a country bumpkin, as hideous, crude and amiable as Charlie is tart, slick and natty, Mortimer chatters for only one sequence, after Charlie has taxed Edgar Bergen with ingratitude, but this is enough to enrage his predecessor. Says Charlie McCarthy: "This is the meanest trick you ever played...