Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indication of collector's interest in contemporary works is shown by a copy of Ernest Hemingway's first publication. "Three Stories and Ten Poems." 1921, owned by J. Lesser Goldman, some note worthy items of E. A. Robinson, leaned by R. J. Bulkley, Jr. '32 and original autograph letters of John Galsworthy, A. A. Milne and others, the property of W. S. Thomas...
Actor Rathbone, whose clerical garb does not prevent him from wearing his usual monstrously cut peg trousers, attends a house party, asks the guests what they want most on earth. The actress (Mary Nash) wants applause and to play Lady Macbeth; the painter (Ernest Cossart) to paint beautifully; the novelist (Ernest Thesiger) to achieve literary kudos; the minister's frowzy wife (Cecilia Loftus) to do her duty; the host (Arthur Byron) wants comfort; his lovely mistress (Diana Wynward) wants love; the disillusioned minister (Robert Lorain) desires advancement so that he may denounce God from the tip-top of High Church...
...because Miss Sidney marries someone else. She and her husband (Gene Raymond) are convicted of the shooting on circumstantial evidence. The gangster's old girl meets Miss Sidney in jail and tries to help her save her husband from the gallows. Ladies of the Big House was written by Ernest Booth, a Folsom convict serving a life term. It is well acted, well directed by Marion Gering...
...caused some tidal eruptions, which became planets. Pluto an Accident. It was just a 'lucky accident" that the newest planet Pluto was located where the late Percival Lowell figured that it would be (TIME, March 24, 1930), declared A. A. S.'s retiring president, Professor Ernest William Brown of Yale. Pluto, he thinks, is not heavy enough to cause the Uranian disturbances upon which Lowell based his predictions. Radio & Sunspots. Several years ago Dr. Harlan True Stetson, then of Harvard, observed that radio reception is best when sunspots are least. Later he went to Delaware, Ohio as director...
...mistress, who is not a designing wench but a loyal devotee, observes his quandary, thinks to solve it. by taking poison. Poison fails to kill her. The last reel shows Clive Brook at home again, solemnly celebrating Christmas with his wife and children. Adapted from Ernest Pascal's novel and play The Marriage Bed, the picture adds up as a sincere and thoughtful if somewhat superficial sermon on the sanctity of marriage and the insignificance of escapade. Typical shot: Juliette Compton saying "Don't let me die!" to Clive Brook just after taking the poison. Delicious (Fox). Pictures in which...