Word: egyptologists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suddenly a mysterious little man who looked like an anachronism appeared from nowhere. He was tremendously interesting from the point of view of both the Egyptologist and the psychoanalyst and even to Vag. It seemed almost certain that he was scurrying off to some clandestine meeting, deep in the entrails of Boylston Street, so Vag took pursuit. Of course it was bitterly disappointing to Vag's visions of international intrigue when he saw the little man turn off and head for Harvard Hall, but still hopeful, Vag followed him into the lecture room and procured a seat directly behind...
Died. Howard Carter, 66, famed British Egyptologist, leader of the expedition which discovered the 3,000-year-old tomb of King TutankhAmen; of pneumonia; in London...
...gracious gesture, perhaps, the University Theatre brought Harold Lloyd to the screen Sunday in the role of a Harvard graduate. "Professor Beware" is another of the bespectacled comedian's carefully planned slapsticks, this time about an egyptologist who notes a curious resemblance between his life and that of a legendary subject of Pharaoh. Adventures with hoboes, police, and Phyllis Welch finally lead Mr. Lloyd to the hilarious riot that habitually climaxes his films. It is amusing throughout and genuinely funny in spots...
Died. Frances Winlock, 21, daughter of Egyptologist Herbert Winlock whom she accompanied into the tomb of TutankhAmen; of tuberculosis, after two years' illness; in Saranac Lake...
...Millions (Samuel Goldwyn). A Brooklyn tugboat youth named Eddie (Eddie Cantor) inherits $77,000,000 from an uncle who was an Egyptologist. When he goes to Egypt to collect his legacy, his task is complicated by an unscrupulous Virginia grandee, a male and female racketeer (Warren Hymer and Ethel Merman), a naive agent of his solicitors who loves the Virginian's niece (Ann Sothern). On the boat, Eddie barely escapes death at the hands of the racketeers. In Egypt he is lured to a sheik's palace, narrowly misses being boiled in oil by the sheik, being murdered...