Word: ace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Messrs. Lewis are not related, nor are they professional playwrights. But they have managed to produce a drama which entertains, although it does not always convince, by placing their plot on the broad back of a beguiling rascal named Asa ("Ace") Burdette (Fred Stone). "Ace" has been a fiery leader of "Jayhawkers," those bellicose sons of the Middle Border whose ropes, pitchforks and rifles kept Kansas abolitionist because they did not want the agricultural competition of cheap slave labor. A noted boozer, tobacco-chewer and wencher, sly "Ace" is first seen confessing his sins to a camp-meeting audience...
This is Ketti Gallian's first feature cinema. Producer Winfield Sheehan signed her in London, where, playing in The Ace, she had been enough of a success to start two fashion fads: red hair ribbons and black silk stockings. Previously she had been a chanteuse in French cafés, had made French shorts. While in The Ace, she used to fly to Paris every week-end to see the races at Longchamps. Her first Hollywood contract contained a clause making it compulsory for her to speak perfect English in 100 days. Before the time expired, studio officials made...
...executed by a White House secretary. But to the sist triennial General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, meeting during the past three weeks in Atlantic City, went no word, polite or otherwise, from Episcopalian Franklin D. Roosevelt. Last week General Convention, winding up its affairs, came within an ace of reciprocating in kind...
...while she made a little speech. Hardly had the dust of the departing Mollisons settled on the Bagdad field when in dropped a second British plane, piloted by Flight Lieutenant Charles William Anderson Scott and Captain T. Campbell Black, famed for his spectacular rescue of Ernst Udet, German War ace, in the desert wastes of the treacherous Nile country three years...
Married. Lynwood Thomas ("School-boy") Rowe, 22, ace pitcher of Detroit's American League baseball team; and Edna Mary Skinner, 21, of Eldorado, Ark.; in Detroit...