Word: ace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Billy the Kid (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Undoubtedly the new vogue of westerns has been stimulated by critics who arraigned the cinema for losing its integrity in dull photographs of stage plays. Now King Wallis Vidor, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's ace director, with the help of the company's best dialog writers, Laurence Stallings and Charles MacArthur, has deliberately turned back to the old westerns as models in an attempt to reproduce the virtues that have reappeared only occasionally in pictures since the western became outmoded-speed, action, outdoor settings, and the suspense of the greatest and simplest...
...Eaton's pack, an ace is United Light & Power, far-flung utility holding company. What actually seems to have transpired was that the Eaton-Otis holdings in this and many another company* sold last week to Continental Shares, Inc., a holding company which Mr. Eaton controls. To accomplish this, Continental Shares Inc., had borrowed a large sum of money, some in Cleveland, more in New York. Since control of Continental Shares is firmly lodged with the Otis-Eaton interests, the deal seemed to have little actual significance except that Mr. Eaton's financial resources are ample...
...striking that it could assure the success of the picture. At times it is impossible to conceive of where the camera could have been. But there is no one individual feature that can be singled out as better than any other. The daring flying of Germany's greatest war ace, the able directing, and the excellent acting of a European cast all contribute to make this one of the pictures that can not be missed by the discriminating movie goer...
Newsmen asked one another what had happened, could only guess at the answer. Perhaps some unlucky subeditor had blundered. Or perhaps the Star, unable to transform so many big snakes into other animals, decided in editorial conference that it could ill afford to drop out its ace comic, the Bungles, for even one Sunday. Or perhaps Publisher Longan suddenly and completely recovered from his snake-phobia...
Awarded. To Col. Edward Vernon Rickenbacker, autoracer, War ace (26 enemy planes), holder of the Distinguished Service Cross (with nine palms), Cross of the Legion of Honor, Croix de Guerre (with four palms): after twelve years, the Congressional Medal of Honor...