Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mother's Millions" is, as might be suggested by the title, a one woman affair. It was inevitable that the production should stand or fall according to the ability of the central character. In portraying on the scren a portion of the life of the famous feminine financier, Hettie Green, May Robson has created a characterization which not only set the seal of success on the picture, but has entitled it to be ranked high among the yearly output of Hollywood...
...mammoth merged fleet includes Vulcania (Cosulich), the Conte Grande and Conte Biancamano (Lloyd Sabaudo). Rumor named Count Costanzo Ciano. Minister of Communications and father-in-law of Daughter Edda. as the destined board chairman of Lloyd Orientale, thus making Italy's entire merchant marine a Mussolini-Ciano family affair. Expanded plans for the loth anniversary (next year) of Fascism's March on Rome to include "the greatest assemblage of armed forces that the Eternal City has seen for two milleniums!" Grandiose, this expansion took place at a session of the Fascist Grand Council in that intoxicating chamber...
...school his daughter in Paris. He can buy garish new furniture for his wretched flat. But he can never leave the place. He is shackled to the dread secret that lies buried in the back yard. His money begins to work him ill, embroils in him an unhappy affair with a blackmailing his daughter with a man, sickens his wife. His wife has long guessed and forgiven his crime, but when she finds he has been unfaithful she poisons herself- with cyanide. The attending physician suspects Mr. Marble, points to his eccentric life, his possession of poison, his books...
...spend such an evening with us." Cinemactor Chaplin scuttled off to have tea with large, booming Basso Feodor Chaliapin. who agreed to give a party at his house. Violinists Jacques Thibaud and Elman were "invited, of course, and altogether we were 22 people. "It was the most informal affair I've ever been to. Everybody did and behaved just as they felt. Thibaud and I played the Double Concerto of Bach again. I'm sure that it was above the Prince's head as he is not at all musical, but he was very enthusiastic. Chaliapin...
...Julian himself is enamored of Hildegarde, young thing of his own age; they agonize together over a world that was not molded very near to their hearts' desire. For a while it looks as though everything would go badly for everybody. Pauline tries to break off her affair with Julian's father when she has to take her own invalid parent to Switzerland. Prying grown-ups catch Julian and Hildegarde taking a perfectly innocent sun bath after a swim. Hilclegarde's mother whisks her abroad; Julian in sick despair drives his rickety old motorbike over a cliff...