Word: alan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...solidarity of the little group begins to splinter. The generals complain of pains and illness, long to be away. The faithful Corsican attendant Cipriani (Jules Epailly) dies. Las Cases (Alan Wheatley), smugly cherishing his biographical notes, is sent away by the British -without his notes. Gourgaud (Joseph Macaulay), sulking like a jealous mistress when anyone else approaches his idol, finds his lot unendurable, weeps, departs. Suffering from confinement and a bad liver, Napoleon is haunted at night by the spectres of his mistakes. He cannot forget, he says, that if he had not attacked so soon at Waterloo, he would...
...ALAN S. HAWKESWORTH...
Quintuplet-Deliverer Dr. Alan Roy Dafoe and the original Dionne midwives were not called in for last week's proceedings because of their association in Mr. and Mrs. Dionne's mind with the hated Ontario Government which tore the Quintuplets from their poor home, made them the luxurious handmaidens of science and official wards of the King. Beamed new Deliverer Dr. Ildor Joyal of North Bay: "Un gros garçon! A real bouncer! A really strong and healthy baby, messieurs! Nor have I ever seen a more radiant and joyful mother...
...Alan Patrick Herbert, famed Punch humorist and M. P., popped up in the House of Commons to poke fun at recent Fascist demonstrations in London. Said he: "Between black shirts and red shirts I am one of those who cry, 'A plague on both your blouses.' They name themselves after their lingerie, whether black shirts, blue braces, pink pants or dirty drawers...
Parole (Universal) is a brisk treatise, in the great cinema tradition of cops & robbers, on the evils of the parole system. A law student (Henry Hunter), released after a two-year term for an automobile accident, falls foul of the parole board. A hardened young criminal (Alan Baxter), who knows the ropes, has no difficulties whatever. It takes a series of murders, a scandalous exposé of the methods of a rich building contractor (Alan Dinehart), quick work on the part of the parolee's onetime cellmate (Grant Mitchell) to produce reforms...