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Director John Cromwell's version of Maugham's novel starts when Philip Carey (Leslie Howard) learns in Pans that he is a mediocre painter, makes up his mind to study medicine in London. Near the end of the picture Carey under goes an operation which cures his clubfoot...
It was Leonard Rowland Hill. In the hours of his hiding, with the baying of Mrs. Michael Sadlier's hounds in his ears, he had come to realize what a dreadful thing it is to shoot at a British policeman. Almost at her feet he pulled his pistol again...
Swearer, this is thy prayer. Oh, dreadful imprecation! Oh horrible, most horrible! . . . Oh, let thine oaths be turned into supplications! . . ."
(3 of 5) Insull Utility Investments, in which he put his family holdings and sold stock to the public. Later he founded another such company, called it Corporation Securities. Thus Samuel Insull entered on the great game of 1929, building towering corporate pyramids, buying and selling stock. He had been...
For his prowess in detection the office of Chief Constable was specially created for Frederick Wensley, whose service at Scotland Yard began 47 years ago just before the dreadful days of Jack the Ripper.