Word: gossips
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...know what my father said or did at the dock when confronted with the question of what I was up to but in any case it must have been greatly magnified by gossip-hunters, but I only wish that my parent would desist in future from giving rise to such rotten and unhelpful publicity...
...some reluctance when her brother turns her out for coming home late. The picture, derived from Vina Delmar's best seller in 1928, might have been chilled by the sententious attitude with which cinema often apologizes for its attempts at realism. Instead, it is as intimate as the gossip on a fire-escape, as interesting as a secret. Director Frank Borzage (Seventh Heaven) gave the story just the treatment it needed to make its developments seem as important as though they had happened to people whom you know - as, in outline, they must have happened to some acquaintance...
...cabaret girl was perhaps selected for Ruth Chatterton because it gave her a chance to display her overestimated versatility: she uses stock French mannerisms, hisses in a coquettish way when impersonating Duchene. Long publicized as "first lady of the cinema" Actress Chatterton has lately been the subject of Hollywood gossip. It was rumored that Warner Brothers had "stolen" her from Paramount; then, that Warner Brothers had agreed to give her back. Actress Chatterton's Paramount contract expires in October. When it expires, she is expected to begin working for Warner Brothers...
...laid the foundation. Their purposes: "Fellowship . . . acquaintances . . . assisting children of Rockefeller descendants to obtain an education . . . by making them loans of money . . . without interest." Initiation fee was $2, annual dues $2. More recently they have published the R. F. A. News, an eight-page quarterly which runs gossip on Rockefellers; family genealogy and such information as: "This name [Rockefeller] was chosen after the name of their chateau [at Creyssels, France], which was called Roca-folio. . . . The greater part . . . of the rocks of Creyssels . . . were found to be of petrified leaves." Many issues of the News carry articles about the Rockefeller...
...estimated as high as 5,000, about two-thirds of whom are employable. This week witnessed the first overt effort of the jobless to help themselves as a group, with the publication of a weekly tabloid named Newsdom. It is an eight-page, five-column sheet devoted largely to gossip of newspaper offices in the New York metropolitan area, to be sold among working newspapermen, admen & pressmen...