Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among Nazi officials the bright-eyed Propaganda Minister is called "Little Doctor." Year ago, in a Berlin film, a seductive Czech actress was asked how to get ahead in the world. Her reply was: "Go find a good doctor." The audience, which guessed what doctor was meant, roared with laughter. The Little Doctor hurriedly withdrew the film. An added quirk to the situation was the fact that the Czech leading lady, Lida Baarova, was a particularly admired protegee of Dr. Goebbels. Last week, as Dr. Goebbels lay sick abed with what was officially reported as intestinal influenza, Lida Baarova...
From The Daily News Syndicate in Switzerland and International News Service in London came spectacular additions to the story. Dr. Goebbels had been beaten, it was said, within an inch of his life by friends of Actress Baarova's husband. These friends, incensed because the husband had been sent to a concentration camp, had surprised the Propaganda Minister in Lida's rooms, might have killed him had it not been for the intervention of Dr. Goebbels' chauffeur. Frau Goebbels, one of Herr Hitler's more prominent tea-pourers, was supposed to have chuffed off to Copenhagen...
Father Frederick was still in Paris last week, confounding Fascists and having the time of his life. Son David and Nephew Jimmy left Spain last autumn, Jimmy to marry lovely, dark-headed Actress Mary Liles in Manhattan...
Aboard the luxurious 22-passenger Imperial Airways liner Frobisher, speeding from Paris to Croydon Airport one evening last week, were a group of travelers that might have been chosen by a cinema director. They numbered 13. Main characters were a sophisticated Manhattan night-club songstress, an aloof British movie actress, an equerry to the Duke of Gloucester, a fun-loving mademoiselle from Paris, a Connecticut Yankee. There were also three solid businessmen, extras...
...when she is the wife of Henry Field living in West Springfield and then in New York City. But the whole is well knit. Under the gay lights of Paris, before tragedy has struck her life and with the handsome Due Du Praslin at here side, she sees the actress Rachel. Many years later, as Mrs. Henry Field, she again relieves the past in one of the most moving and powerful scenes Rachel Field has ever written when the great French actress comes to New York, and after many resolves she slips across to the theatre, alone...