Word: jagger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Missouri Legend (by Elizabeth B. Ginty; produced by Guthrie McClintic in association with Max Gordon), half a clowning comic strip, half a romantic daguerreotype, is based on the life of Jesse James. Playwright Ginty, with some support from history, has made James (Dean Jagger) into a droll sort of Jekyll & Hyde who, when not "riding out," is Thomas Howard of St. Joe, Mo., a sober family man with a mousy wife (Dorothy Gish), and a pillar of the local Baptist church...
Nudes have never been rejected by the Royal Academy, but they have always had to be genteel nudes. Ablest figure in the Academy was Model Resting by David Jagger (see cut). Round this a small storm centred, not because the well-painted figure was nude, but because her toenails were polished crimson, a Continental touch that many critics felt to be un-British...
Associated Press today feeds financial news to 1,300 newspapers. A huge service requiring 25,000 miles of wire for its exclusive use, AP's financial department is headed by able young Claude Jagger. Hearstpapers feature the syndicated optimism of B. (for Bertie) C. (for Charles) Forbes and the more informative comment of Merryle Stanley Rukeyser...