Word: homers
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...rest of the performance he comports himself like a good rube character actor. He takes the part of the grandfather of a family which has grown rich in Oklahoma oil and which has decided to go to Paris to see the sights. The attraction is adapted from Homer Croy's novel They Had to See Paris. The few moments of talent in the entire production, aside from those supplied by Mr. Sale, occur when Lois Deppe and his Negro jubilee singers appear. Hello Paris cannot be favorably compared to another musicomedy based on the same idea called Fifty Million...
...Bryan who has been playing Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice at the Chicago Civic Theatre is a grandson of the late great William Jennings Bryan. Mode of discovery: he was visited by Representative Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida, whose son he is by her first marriage with William Homer Leavitt. John Bryan Leavitt was adopted by his grandfather, shortened his name...
President Homer LeRoy Shantz of the University of Arizona (Tucson) found lager beer bottles in the walls of his home, sent them to the Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society Museum. Helen Lee Eames, debutante stepdaughter of Henry Latham Doherty, potent oil-utility tycoon, ordered twelve Ford sport cabriolets which she will give to friends after painting silhouets on the cars "to personalize the owner's individuality." First car she embellished with horses & hounds, sent to sporting King Alfonso XIII of Spain who, last year, helped rescue a school friend of Miss Eames after she had suffered an equestrian mishap...
...General Electric hour; Conductor Howard Barlow and a symphony orchestra Tuesday evenings for Philco; the Los Angeles Philharmonic every Thursday evening over a Pacific Coast network for Standard Oil Co. of California. Of famed individuals scheduled to broadcast this season, many are sponsored by Atwater Kent (Contralto Louise Homer who sang last week, Tenor Giovanni Martinelli, Pianist Josef Hofmann, Violinist Albert Spalding, Sopranos Rosa Ponselle and Rethberg...
...Cardinals again made two bad mistakes. The day before they had systematically annoyed the Athletics' Mickey Cochrane, "greatest catcher in baseball." When he came to bat the St. Louis henchmen had flapped their hands beside their heads, chanting softly "Mule ears. Mule ears." Annoyed, Cochrane had knocked a homer. Now in the first inning they goaded him again. He made another homer...