Word: alan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...propaganda novels are against the Government or in favor of a Communist State. Some have smaller fish to fry. Such a well-sizzled fish is dished up in Holy Deadlock, serious satire on the English divorce laws. Though Author Alan Patrick Herbert is a professional humorist, rings all the ludicrous changes he can on his rickety theme, his book is an earnest arraignment. U. S. readers, accustomed to the elastic chaos of 47 different divorce laws in 47 States,* may not see much in Holy Deadlock to get excited over, but for Britons Author Herbert's circumstantial farce might...
...made lago a villain of monstrous subtlety and venom. The Jones' sets, sparkling with Venetian color, were amazingly well handled throughout a one-intermission performance on a stage equipped only with a hand curtain. An audience of 750 which included Cinemagnate Jesse Lasky, Producer Max Gordon. Mr. & Mrs. Alan Campbell (Dorothy Parker), cheered itself hoarse after the performance and then adjourned, like most of the cast, to the barroom of the Teller House next door, to which President Grant once made his way over a pavement of silver bricks...
Married. Barbara Kent, youngest daughter of Artist Rockwell Kent; and Alan Carter, Manhattan musician; at "Asgaard," Artist Kent's home near Ausable Forks...
...important part of Of Human Bondage remains Philip's attachment for Mildred Rogers (Bette Davis), the waitress who turns prostitute before her death from tuberculosis. The first time Philip and Mildred go out together, he gayly buys a bottle of champagne. When she leaves him for Emil Miller (Alan Hale) he follows them to a theatre, watches them drive off together in a taxi. When she comes back for the second time after a Paris jaunt with his fellow medical student (Reginald Denny), she moves into Philip's rooms. Audiences in Manhattan last week were sufficiently impressed...
Marriage Revealed. Dorothy Rothschild Parker, 40, poetess, wit; and Alan Campbell, 26, actor; in Westbury, L. I.; in October. Seeking Divorce. Anna Roosevelt Dall, daughter of President Roosevelt; from Curtis Bean Dall; in Reno (see p. 9). Seeking Divorce. Charlotte Charlton Leonard; from University of Wisconsin Professor William Ellery Leonard, 58, poet, author (Two Lives, The Locomotive God); in Madison, Wis. Died. Charles ("Chuck") Gardiner, 29, star goaltender for the Chicago Black Hawks hockey team, three times winner of the Georges Vezina trophy for the leading goaltender of the National League; of a tumor of the brain; in Winnipeg...