Word: aubrey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arliss, for whom the story was written, takes full advantage of his opportunities and gives the best performance of his motion picture career. For the first time since "Disraeli," he ceases to be Arliss, and becomes the character he is depicting. His support: Robert Young, Loretta Young, C. Aubrey Smith, Boris Karloff, Helen Westley, et el., together with the able directing and technical assistance add to the worth of this excellent picture...
Apparently much less bothered with their debt than the Episcopalians with theirs (see p. 32), the Southern Baptists reaffirmed confidence in their "100,000 Club"-an organization to get 100,000 members to contribute $1 per month for five years. When the messengers learned from Dr. Melbourn Evans Aubrey, a Baptist who brought greetings from Great Britain, that no denominational boards were in debt in his country. Dr. George W. Truett of Dallas stirred them to laughter by remarking that they should "follow the great American game of kidnapping and bring Dr. Aubrey to rescue Southern Baptists from some...
...murder. Sheila Aiken, who could have given Garry an alibi by admitting that he was at her house, refuses to do so unless Lady Lee divorces him. This horrid snarl is untangled as simply as it was arranged, by a shot of Madison's uncouth father (C. Aubrey Smith) noticing tears in Lady Lee's eyes when she has said farewell to Garry...
...style. "Dignity" is what old Mayer Amschel Rothschild advises his sons to acquire. The picture, like Nathan Rothschild, is dignified without being stupid. As squealing little Julie Rothschild, Loretta Young manages to be gay without appearing to have stepped into pro-Victorian England out of a Ziegfeld chorus. C. Aubrey Smith is excellent as Wellington. As old Mrs. Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who gets the wittiest lines Nunnally Johnson was able to pack into his script, Helen Westley is superb. Called upon to explain why she has lived so long, she answers, with a muddled sense of finance, by saying...
...Pulitzer Prize play jury. In this modernized cinema version it is likely to recapture much of its old popularity. Though Spencer Tracy at times stoops to tricks for audience sympathy which the late Louis John Bartels spurned, most of the fun of the Kelly crucifixion of J. Aubrey Piper still shines through the Hollywood edition. J. Aubrey Piper attracts the admiration of Amy Fisher (Madge Evans) when, during a rescue, he is accidentally pushed into Manhattan harbor and credited with a lifesaving. He courts her in expensive cars, inspects mansions for a new residence, boasts of his railroad holdings, marries...