[Ads-l] ripped from today's headlines

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Here are some matches from 1931 in the newspapers.com database (double
check for errors). The initial matches do not contain the word
"today's".

Date: April 19, 1931
Newspaper: The St. Petersburg Times
Newspaper Location: St. Petersburg, Florida
Article: Advertisement for the movie "The Finger Points"
Section 2, Quote Page 3, Column 7
Database: Newspapers.com

[Begin except]
RICHARD BARTHELMESS
      In
The Story That Was Ripped From the Headlines
and Tells the World of the Underworld.
"THE FINGER POINTS"
[End excerpt]


Date: May 29, 1931
Newspaper: Chicago Daily Tribune
Newspaper Location: Chicago, Illinois
Article: Advertisement for the movie "The Finger Points"
Quote Page 17, Column 6
Database: Newspapers.com

[Begin excerpt]
Thundering Drama Ripped from the Headlines!
[End excerpt]


Date: June 18, 1931
Newspaper: The Olean Evening Times
Newspaper Location: Olean, New York
Article: Advertisement for the movie "3 Girls Lost"
Author:
Quote Page 14, Column 2
Database: Newspapers.com

[Begin except]
A Story, Torn from Today's Headlines
"3 Girls Lost"
with
LORETTA YOUNG
[End excerpt]


Date: August 21, 1931
Newspaper: Chicago Daily Tribune
Newspaper Location: Chicago, Illinois
Article: Advertisement for the movie "The Public Enemy"
Quote Page 21, Column 3
Database: Newspapers.com

[Begin except]
Ripped from today's headlines, it
lays bare the raw, real, ruthless
truth of America's vicious foe . . .
The "Public Enemy"
[End excerpt]

Garson


On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 3:03 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Cf.:
>
> 1937 _Cleveland Plain Dealer_  (June 3) 10: THE LOVE STORY THAT ROCKED THE
> FOUNDATIONS OF AN EMPIRE!
> So timely it might have been torn from today's headlines!  You thought "San
> Francisco" was exciting - but wait! You'll be thrilled to your finger-tips!
> ... Clark GABLE  Myrna LOY   PARNELL   Starts TOMORROW.
>
> Actually, the headlines about Parnell would have been almost fifty years
> old. But that's show biz!
>
> JL
>
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 2:46 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Formerly an indispensable movie-ad cliche.
>>
>> Earliest?
>>
>> 1949 _Seattle Daily Times_ (Dec. 13) 22: Ripped from today's
>> headlines...sensational expose' of modern cattle rustling! "Tough
>> Assignment" Don Barry  Marjorie Steele  Steve Brodie.
>>
>> My suspicion is that the phrase first appeared in a movie trailer slightly
>> before it showed up in a newspaper.
>>
>> JL
>>
>> --
>> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
>>
>
>
>
> --
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
>
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