Word: aubrey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eight years, Warner's first experiment was a musical comedy (Happiness Ahead), in which her by no means untaxing assignment was to spend six reels listening to Dick Powell sing. With this out of the way, a good solid English sex-problem piece, with mullioned windows and C. Aubrey Smith as a friend of the family, was obviously in order. This line of reasoning explains what would otherwise be the somewhat startling revival of Somerset Maugham's sardonic play The Sacred Flame, which has appeared twice in the cinema since its performance on the Manhattan stage...
...King, the business of impersonating heroes in his country's history is eminently sound. The only error made by George Arliss was in choosing two who performed on the same world stage about the same time. In The House of Rothschild (in which Wellington was impersonated by C. Aubrey Smith), Actor Arliss suggested to cinema audiences that Waterloo was a minor crisis in the affairs of a Jewish financier. In The Iron Duke, though Rothschild does not appear at all, Arliss' invariable mannerisms are so reminiscent that it seems strange when he orders his cavalry to charge instead...
Most audiences will spot the murderer easily, long before the Inspector (C. Aubrey Smith) breaks down a mendacious confession, obtains a truthful one, and benignly subscribes to the general idea that the killer was only a slightly foolish person who sought to escape a stuffy background...
Ordinary x-ray pictures, taken after the patient has eaten a paste of barium sulphate, show only the outline of the stomach. A method of outlining all the rugae occurred to a few roentgenologists. notably to Dr. Aubrey Otis Hampton, 34, a sharp-nosed Texan who went to Boston to practice medicine. Last week he explained the method to other fellows of the American College of Surgeons (see p. 35) who crowded his lecture in Boston...
...Into the Blue Room at one time or another during the week also trotted Secretary Wallace, Secretary Ickes, Madam Secretary Perkins, Professor George F. Warren, Governor Black of the Federal Reserve (see p. 58), Governor Harrison of the New York Reserve Bank, Acting Relief Administrator Aubrey Williams. Drought Relief Administrator Lawrence Westbrook, AAAdministrator Chester C. Davis, Donald Richberg, General Johnson (see p.11). If any of them had brought anything so simple as a bag of corn, Franklin Roosevelt would have been pleased...