Tag Archives: 1940s

Mortimer Brewster is a newspaperman and author known for his diatribes against marriage. Read More »

A Boston judge bored with his life leaves his family and heads off for adventure. Read More »

Roy ‘Mad Dog’ Earle is broken out of prison by an old associate who wants him to help with an upcoming robbery. Read More »

Teen baseball fan Johnny Barrows sneaks into the baseball stadium of the Cleveland Indians, then playing in the 1948 World Series Read More »

Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics Read More »

“Grandmother” is a highly romanticized autobiographical novel by a Czech 19th century writer, Bozena Nemcova. Read More »

In the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Lawrence ‘Larry’ Stevens is an ambitious reporter of The Evening News. Read More »

In Africa, the girl Jill Young trades a baby gorilla with two natives and raises the animal. Read More »

A rowdy woman is so forceful that she outdoes her husband in a loud cry against speculators who refuse poor people Read More »

The ethicist, Placido Mesquita, coming to Lisbon to visit his nephew Edward to rescue him from a damnable life of bad habits Read More »