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...another Congressional show not unlike last week's. Then it was Samuel Untermyer (75 last week) v. John Pierpont Morgan Sr. Minnesota's Representative Charles Augustus Lindbergh, whose son later married the daughter of a Morgan partner, had called for an inquiry into the "Money Trust." Chairman Arsene Pujo of the House Banking & Currency Committee set the stage. The first day the elder Morgan spent 17 minutes on the witness stand and was so upset by Inquisitor Untermyer that he could not name his ten partners. The second and last day he was again master of himself, barking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wealth on Trial | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

Died. William Courtenay, 57, oldtime stage actor (The Wolf, Arsene Lupin, Romance, Under Fire, The Inside Story}; of a heart ailment incurred more than two years ago during the filming of Three Faces East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 1, 1933 | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

Anyone who would like to see the two Barrymore brothers, John and Lienel, eneering, smiling, and bowing to each other ever so slightly, but as graciously as only Barrymores can, should see "Arsene Lupin" now playing at Loew's State...

Author: By H.g.p. Jr., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

...make the complacent yet devilishly clever Duke feel uncomfortable. From under Guerchard's very eyes necklaces and diamonds are whisked off a dozen ladies at a dance, and a whole great hall full of portraits of "ancestors bought cheap" and marble busts is robbed by a patrol of Arsene Lupin's police-clad confederates. The final insult to Guerchard occurs in the Louvre at a moment when it is surrounded by police. While Guerchard, twenty-five feet away, is standing in the very same room, the words "tut, tut", are scrawled across the front of a reproduction of the Mona...

Author: By H.g.p. Jr., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

...While Arsene Lupin was being made, Hollywood heard that the Barrymores were squabbling on the set, trying hard to steal each other's scenes. This was probably unfounded. Amiable competitors, they first played together in Peter Ibbetson. John, offered the role, refused it as "sentimental bunk" until he learned that there was a part in it for Lionel, then an illustrator at $50 a week. The play ran four months. Later, planning a fishing trip together, they expected it to be postponed a week or two by The Jest, which ran nine months. When they met for the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Reunion in Hollywood | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

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