Word: americanes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three of the Due's ancestors were Marshals of France. Victor Claude. Prince de Broglie, his great-great-grandfather, served with Lafayette and Rochambeau in the American Revolution, was a Jacobin in the French Revolution. Opposing Robespierre, the "sea-green incorruptible," he died under the guillotine during The Terror...
...speedily, expertly in her blue Studebaker. In Connecticut she turns herself over to her caretaking couple, her gardens, her guitar. There she entertains her closest friends?Elsie Janis, Ethel Barrymore, Clare Eames, Constance Collier, Mrs. Stuart Benson (business manager of the Civic Repertory Theatre), Madame Ouspensky (directrix of the American Laboratory Theatre), Mercedes de Acosta, Helen Lohmann, Irma Kraft...
...tout. The wandering story is handled in the superficial awkward way common to films in which the plot is merely a series of hooks for hanging up songs and dances. It is unfortunate under the circumstances that Colleen Moore has little singing voice and cannot dance. A typical Irish-American girl, spontaneous and convincing in parts that are natural to her, she is clearly uncomfortable in Footlights and Fools. Silliest shot: Miss Moore coming down into the audience to hug a tired business...
...shrewd and able executive is Victor M. Cutter, onetime timekeeper and now President of United Fruit Co. Most famed North-Central American enterprise, U. F. C. is the largest fruit shipper (97 steamships in the Great White Fleet), largest landowner (2,000,000 acres in Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Canary Islands, Jamaica, Nicaragua, England, France, U. S.), largest U. S. banana importer (1928: 33,872,000 stems). Last year the Great White Fleet carried 72,000 passengers. On land, United Fruit Co. operates 2,300 miles of railway and tramway, owns herds of 30,000 cattle...
...smallest tax upon President Cutter's shrewdness has been the necessity, increasing year by year, of impressing upon sensitive Central Americans that the great U. F. C., industrially dominant, is also the personal and political friend of each and every Latin American republic. Accordingly, last January, he wrote and published Foreign Trade's Golden Rule, explaining the essential economic unity of U. F. C. and the countries in which it operates. Accordingly, last week, he was vexed to find a rift in at least one of U. F. C.'s golden unities...