Word: angele
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been looking for a leading woman. He had one major requirement: she must have beautiful legs, and a minor reservation: he preferred that she be unknown. Marlene fitted the first condition so perfectly that von Sternberg dropped his reservation. He cast her in the lead of The Blue Angel. When he returned to the U. S. he got her a contract with Paramount...
...unquestioning, self-righteous, he caused Carrie more suffering than he knew. This week in another purely biographical volume that is the December choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club, Pearl Buck gets around to giving her father his innings. If The Exile is a labor of love, Fighting Angel is a labor of filial justice. It gives less evidence of Pearl Buck's understanding of her father than of her stubborn attempt to understand...
...presses of Little, Brown and Company in Boston. A very interesting collection of his essays and articles on literature, history, education. Enjoyed the long chapter entitled "The Centennial of Mormonism" about Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, Mormons are not necessarily polygamists etc. Joseph Smith found the golden tablets of the Angel Moroni on a hilltop in Palmyra, New York. When the Vagabond was little he went to Palmyra once, on Decoration Day, to see an auto-race...
With yesterday's announcement of the new make-up and powers of the Union Committee, Mr. Marshall, guardian-angel of the class, has breathed life into the ideas which have been brewing for over a year for improving the management of Freshman affairs and making the class more of a social unit. Changes in student government, which were advanced by last year's Red Book Committee and the Confidential Guide, bid fair to open new fields of activity for enterprising yearlings and to give students greater freedom in shaping their destiny during the early months of their college career...
...twenties one of the most popular songs in the land was the lugubrious lament of a dispirited convict who wished he had the wings of an angel. Some 5,000,000 copies and phonograph records of The Prisoner's Song were sold. According to a myth as hollow as it was widespread, the composer was a condemned man awaiting execution in the death house of the Missouri or Texas or Oklahoma penitentiary. In Manhattan, around the all-night delicatessens where Broadway song pluggers and publishers gather for gossip and fun, it was always assumed that the composer was Vaudevillian...