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...Then audiences' word-of-mouth advertising suddenly began to change all that. Tobacco Road began to pay. Soon Anthony Brown, who had come from balmy Hollywood to direct the play, had saved enough to buy an overcoat. Henry Hull, then playing the part of filthy Jeeter Lester, found he could begin to pay the expenses of his Old Lyme, Conn, estate. After the first year's run, profits were $84,000. When Tobacco Road's second birthday rolled around, Producers Sam Grisman, Jack Kirkland and Anthony Brown threw caution to the winds, blew...
Epee: J. William Croach, Jr., '40, Edward G. Davis, Jr., '38, Lester C. Miller '39, Halford W. Park, Jr., '40, Eugene L. Saenger '38, and Hans H. Zinsser...
...Appomattox Day, April 9, 1890, when Benjamin Harrison was the seventh Republican President of the U. S., two young Chicago lawyers named Robert McMurdy and Lester Coffeen opened a Republican social club in a three-story white stone house facing Lake Michigan. Last week to old Lawyer McMurdy, 77, and many another stanch Republican member came the news that the Hamilton Club, for four decades one of the most famous political fraternities in the U. S., was about to close its doors...
...Jersey's Democracy, opined that his candidate for Governor, Senator A. Harry Moore, would carry his Hudson County stronghold by 130,000 votes. Candidate Moore carried Hudson County by 129,000 votes. Since this was enough to wipe out the leads piled up by his Republican opponent, Preacher Lester H. Clee, in most other New Jersey counties and give Moore a Statewide margin of 744,311-to-699,454, Candidate Clee and his Republican friends promptly charged that their Hudson County workers had been intimidated, began, clamoring for a recount. When officials advised that this could not legally...
...Stand-in Lester Plum (Joan Blondell) explains her functions to Atterbury Dodd (Leslie Howard), eastern efficiency expert who has come to Colossal studios as stand-in for a bank. Atterbury thinks of picture-making in terms of arithmetic and of picturemakers in terms of cogs and units. At first he occupies a suite in orchid and pale fudge in a famed hotel, but is driven by job-seekers and backslappers to refuge in the boarding house where Miss Plum lives with various cinema people who differ from the successes only in not having jobs. Gradually it dawns on Atterbury that...