Word: plutocratic
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...event which made news last week was the opening of a cancer clinic attached to the Infirmary. Dr. James Ewing, dean of cancer specialists, was there. Mrs Frank Arthur Vanderlip attended in black & red as Infirmary president. The memory of the late Chauncey Mitchell Depew, oratorical plutocrat, hovered over the simple ceremonies. Donors of the clinic were his sister's daughters-May Strang and Dr. Elise Strang L'Esperance. Dr. L'Esperance is pathologist at the Infirmary for Women & Children...
...what his wife is up to; he has a variety of lady friends and lies to them all. He borrows $30,000,000 from his own bank to build a 102-story skyscraper. When threatened with bankruptcy he goes to take a Turkish bath where he persuades a goodnatured plutocrat (George Barbier) to save his venture. Another associate is soon a suicide, ruined by a stock deal in which Banker Dwight runs Manhattan-Seacoast up to 350 and then causes it to go rapidly down. Banker Dickson suffers from his wife's readiness to make him a cuckold. Banker...
This picture concerns an elderly plutocrat (Heggie); his attractive second wife (Damita); and his son, an amorous prodigal (Lester Vail) who returns from abroad to become sexually interested in his stepmother. Finally, the scion goes away by himself and Damita embraces Heggie, who leers in a manner reminiscent of Daddy Browning...
...Sinclair ("Red") Lewis, who created the character and published the novel Babbitt in 1922, to represent a type of U. S. businessman. A vast reading public immediately accepted George Follansbee Babbitt as the go-getter incarnate. A school of Babbitt literature started, culminating in Booth Tarkington's The Plutocrat. "Babbitts," "Babbittry," "Babbittism'; became epithets applicable to all those who, like the prototype, were ever zooming for the Home Town, a Big-Business Administration, private real estate developments, the Rotary club or God. Last week Realtor Babbitt zoomed Author Lewis himself into an unanticipated world prominence. Aiding were heroes...
...down. As Good As New. Being an exceptionally good mummer, Otto Kruger is always capable of a first-rate performance no matter how weak the show is-and he has performed in some frail attractions (Nobody's Money, Will Shakespeare, The Long Road). As Tom Banning, the philandering plutocrat in As Good As New, Mr. Kruger again demonstrates that it is hard to smother a good actor beneath a poor script. He is surprised in the apartment of his paramour. As a protest against her mother's impending divorce, his daughter threatens to run off and live with...