Word: toms
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Tom Sawyer (Paramount). The Tom Sawyer of the printed page remains more real than any figure of flesh & blood concocted in his image, and for this reason there are people who will cavil at Paramount's cinema of him, or go with misgivings into a theatre to see him played, afraid that lies will be told about someone they know. Yet no lies are told in this picture. You can accept Jackie Coogan, you can accept the treatment which does all for the story that any cinema could do in the limits of program time-present its surface...
...abandoned that career for reporting. His first newspaper job was with the New York Evening Journal (Hearst). Year later he changed to the American (Hearst). There he had a general assignment, roving from 14th St. to 96th St. He covered the murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal (1912), the Black Tom explosion (1916), the Whittemore gang murders (19-26), numerous...
...special assistant to the U. S. Attorney General (1928-30) he showed himself a scholarly lawyer; 4) though he was the Republican nominee when the Fergusons won the governorship of Texas in 1924, he was recommended to the White House by no less an ardent Democrat than Texas Senator Tom Connally. Porto Ricans proclaimed the good fortune by Filipinos to get such a Vice Governor as Dr. Butte. Impressed, Politicos Quezon and Osmena in Manila announced that they were quite satisfied. President Hoover felt that he might well congratulate himself. ¶ "We need to be more humble," President Hoover...
...punting quarterback, Johnny Branch, held Duke at bay, but that was not all his team had to do. The scoreless tie played in the mud gave Duke the State championship, since North Carolina had been beaten by Davidson. Although outrushed by eleven first downs to seven, a Tom-Thumb team from Rice amazed a crowd in Houston, Tex., by trimming Iowa State 13 to 7. Carnegie Tech's passes-McCurdy to Kavel-brought two touchdowns, and McCurdy intercepted a Washington & Jefferson pass and ran it over. Carnegie Tech 26, Washington & Jefferson...
...Gershwin's music. The tunes are the best from Girl Crazy. Can This be Love? and Three Little Words (Columbia)-Two best-sellers mellowed by the Ipana (Toothpaste) Troubadours. What a Fool I've Been and After All, You're All I'm After (Brunswick)-Tom Gerun plays these smoothly, with plenty of pace. Bolero and La Seduccion (Victor)-The inevitable popularized version of Ravel's symphonic hit coupled with a teasing tango...