Word: alan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Great Catherine", the play was the thing rather than the interpretation of the players. It is a piece of gorgeous satire and rollicking wit. The burden of the plot concerns the efforts of an English officer at the court to keep free of the entangling wiles of the empress. Alan Mowbray, in the part, succeeded in doing this, but he did not develop a very consistent or convincing character. Jessamine Newcombe portrayed the imperial Catherine, lovely, regal, and almost barbaric enough, while Mr. Hulse was a glorious drunken chancellor whom G. B. S. very kindly provided with lines sufficiently scintillating...
Engaged. Gratia Buell Houghton, niece of the U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain, to Alan G. Rinehart, second son of Mary Roberts Rinehart, famed novelist...
...Berne, Switzerland, a quiet town a few hours from magnificent scenery, overnight from livelier capitals, is a choice appointment. Last week, Miss Lucille Atcherson of Columbus, Ohio, was assigned to Berne to serve under Minister Hugh Gibson* and Second Secretary Alan Winslow.* As another "first woman," Miss Atcherson became an object of interest. It was learned that her father was a reputable local officeholder; that she was graduated from Smith College, was Secretary to the President of the University of Chicago; and, since passing her diplomatic examinations, served in the Latin-American division of the State Department...
This decision was reached after cable consultations with Mr. Lacau, the Director General of the Egyptian Department of Antiquities, with Mr. Alan Rowe, Acting Director of the Expedition, and with Mr. C. M. Firth, director of the Egyptian Government excavations at Saqqarah...
...Barrymore, overacting, became monotonous. Better performances were offered by Adrienne Morrison as the bucket-shop decoy and particularly by Alan Brooks, expensive boy friend...