Word: even
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...insulted the Prince of Wales from the stage because the Prince had made Kean's beloved sit in the Royal Box at a performance of Hamlet. Moissi rants in his best manner, letting out the exotic and flexible tones which have made his reputation on the Continent, but even audiences who know German well will have trouble understanding him, so badly timed is the recording. At the Manhattan premiere of this picture the lounge of the Fifth Avenue Playhouse was fixed up like a German beer-garden and the patrons were served with near-beer and pretzels. Good shots...
...father, so he still speaks German with a faint trill in his r's and an insufficient guttural. In Trieste he went to the only Italian Real-gymnasium where the pupils did not have to learn Latin and Greek. His ancestors had all been solid people, merchants, physicians, even one general, but he decided to be an actor. After a while in stock, he convinced Max Reinhardt that he was a good actor, thus adding to Reinhardt's reputation for "discovering" talent. He now lives near Vienna, has no definite nationality just as he has no permanent working...
...Mysterious Island (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The strangely prescient fantasies of Jules Verne are essentially scenarios, and good ones. Monstrous engines, undiscoverable worlds, half-human and superhuman people which no words, even when manipulated with Verne's genius for combining the staccato and the nebulous, could quite make real, become more interesting when you see them concretely produced for the camera. This is one of Verne's submarine pieces. Director Lucien Hubbard has caught the right atmosphere and Lionel Barrymore seems to enjoy his role as the submarine builder and conqueror of the fish-men of the ocean bottom...
...High points in his career were: member, Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church; delegate, General Conference of M. E. Church (four times); trustee, Chautauqua Institution of Chautauqua, N. Y.; president, town of Westfield. N. Y. (six times); Prohibition Candidate for Governor of New York in 1916. Even Dr. Welch's beverage seems to share his antipathy to alcohol: unlike such soft drinks as ginger ale and mineral water, grape juice does not combine well with alcoholic liquors...
...Girl Lena Wilson were beleaguered in their Manhattan hotel after his mother had thrown plates at news photographers (TIME, Aug. 8, 1927). The Charles A. Lindberghs were hounded along the New England coast, spied on in Maine (TIME, June 17). The John Coolidges received kinder treatment but were "covered" even in the hamlets of rural Vermont...