Word: tabor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yours of Jan. 2 under "New Pictures," you devote a column and a half to Silver Dollar and to H. A. W. Tabor. Commenting on the same...
...Tabor was never spoken of as Haw, but as H. A. W. or as Tabor. Mrs. Augusta Tabor was not a shrew, just a sensible hardworking wife; a mother just a little foolish about her only son, Maxy. A business woman successful until in an unguarded moment she backed Maxy, was thrown against the '93 panic and went broke...
...only thing that Warner Brothers had to fear in making a picture about Haw Tabor was that the facts of 'his life, as reported in Author David Karsner's book Silver Dollar, would seem too theatrical. This danger was averted in a skillful continuity by Carl Erickson and Harvey Thew and in an amazingly successful impersonation of Haw Tabor (called Yates Martin in the picture) by Edward G. Robinson. Robinson makes Yates Martin what Haw Tabor very likely was-a gay, growling, vain man, dazzled and delighted by a world which, for a time, seemed made of silver...
Warner Brothers exploited Silver Dollar cleverly. Before the picture was nationally released last week, they distributed 12,000 silver dollars in change to patrons who bought tickets at the Strand Theatre in Manhattan. To a special opening in Den ver three weeks ago (in the Denver Theatre, near the Tabor Grand Opera House which is now a cinema theatre) so many notables were invited that the premiere was Denver's most brilliant since the Tabor Grand Opera House opened its dcrors in 1881 with Maritana. Among the notables who failed to attend...
...Silver Dollar was Baby Doe, now a recluse who lives near Denver in a shack built at the entrance of the disused Matchless Mine. Grown eccentric in her dotage, she threatens to shoot visitors with a shotgun, wears remnants of the dresses she wore in Washington when Haw Tabor seemed to be the richest man in the world. She still believes that her daughter, Silver Dollar Tabor-who died, under an assumed name, in a Chicago brothel in 1925-is alive in a convent...