Word: angel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...baffle until nearly the end. To discover a ring of diamond, smugglers is the task of Detective Nigel Bruce. Munching peanuts, looking dumb, he succeeds, after his antagonists have been able to commit only two murders, in outwitting them. Intermittently, caught in the whirlpool of tropical action, Miss Heather Angel and a recent British import named Douglas Walton add standard Hollywood romance to the picture. A motorboat chase and an expedition through a quicksand swamp form the principal excitements of the film, but it is the acting of Mr. Bruce and his cohorts which raises "Murder in Trinidad" above other...
...happy to sponsor the tour. Editor Arthur S. Draper of the Literary Digest, with whom rugby is a private obsession, started a campaign for funds. Cambridge authorities agreed to send the Varsity, put up $3,500. Marshall Field, vice president of the Sportsmanship Brotherhood, is likely to be the angel for $2,500 more...
...week were relieved to discover that Tender Is the Night is built to no such outlandish specifications, but closed the book with still unsettled feelings about the author. F. Scott Fitzgerald, who started well this side of paradise, is not yet through purgatory. Though he often writes like an angel, he can still think like a parrot...
...chicken-raising. He was a well-to-do Hollywood gentleman, accustomed to dressing in a cutaway. With his wife he lived in a $200,000 house equipped with a $15,000 swimming pool. Last week occurred a crucial development in the history of the Langhanke family. In Los Angeles, Otto Langhanke had given up his cutaway and was wearing what passed for rags when he asked a court to require Mary Astor to show cause why she should not support her father and mother. Indignant Otto Langhanke said his daughter earned from $1,500 to $2,750 a week, owned...
...Wharf Angel," companion film, comes through with nothing more than a few good camera shots, a story which makes the theatre-goer hope that the end will not be the way that he is almost certain it is going to be, and a not unpleasant way of growing an hour older