Word: agented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long on bad terms with its passengers, the Long Island speedily found itself in a first-class rumpus. Instigator was a little textile salesman named Jacob Abelson who commutes daily over the eleven miles from Jamaica to Manhattan. When the agent refused to sell him a ticket at the lowered rates, angry little Jacob Abelson got aboard without one, told the conductor who requested 34?. "According to the new ruling the fare should be. 23? But I'm willing to pay you 25?. Do you want it?" Flabbergasted, the conductor argued weakly, gave in as the other passengers began...
...after it entered city limits. The L. I. R. R. then avoided obeying the injunction by planning an appeal. This time the passenger outburst was stupendous. Sullenly standing pat, the railroad refused to accept any fares below its standard 3? rate. If a passenger refused to pay that, the agent took his name and address, let him ride for nothing, declared: "Our legal department will get in touch with you." Doubting that the company would ever get around to suing each passenger individually, delighted commuters began riding free...
...Secret Agent (Gaumont-British) introduces to U. S. cinema audiences a hero who should please them highly: Operative Ashenden of the British Intelligence Service, whose activities have been recorded so successfully in fiction by Author Somerset Maugham. Herein Ashenden (John Gielgud) is seen at the start of his career, stationed in Switzerland, where Author Maugham himself functioned as a Wartime spy. Detailed, with the assistance of a gruesome character known as the "Hairless Mexican" (Peter Lorre), to track down a German agent en route to Arabia, Ashenden proceeds with more pluck than perspicacity. Nonetheless, having inadvertently permitted the Hairless Mexican...
...contrast with oldtime fiction operatives like Sherlock Holmes, whose deductive gifts were superhuman, Ashenden belongs to the modern school of sleuths whose fallibility makes them plausible. In Secret Agent he scuffs about hotel corridors, deserted churches, glaciers, the backstairs of a chocolate factory, wearing an unhappy frown which is at times reminiscent of Charles Butterworth's. Spy Ashenden's behavior is, however, less of a hindrance than a help to the picture, is indicative of the enormity of the hostile forces with which he is trying to deal. Directed by England's pudgy master of melodrama, Alfred...
...Ashenden is not the only new cinema personage produced by Secret Agent. The picture also affords U. S. audiences a glimpse of the young actor who is currently London's favorite Hamlet. An elegantly slim young man upon whose emaciated face a formidable nose between gimlet eyes suggests the front of a streamlined car, John Gielgud is the 32-year-old great-nephew of the late great Ellen Terry. A product of Westminster, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and several years of British stock, he made his reputation in successive appearances as Romeo, Hamlet and King Lear at London...