Word: aubrey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayer Amschel, is less disreputable than his father but no less clever. Head of the London branch, he arranges to have his brothers in Frankfort, Vienna, Paris and Naples support the Allies against Napoleon. By the time Napoleon goes to Elba Rothschild and the Duke of Wellington (C. Aubrey Smith) are great friends. When Wellington tells him the Allies propose a loan to rehabilitate France, Rothschild bids but fails to get the loan. Baron Ledrantz (Boris Karloff) collaborates with Metternich and Talleyrand to assign the bonds to gentile bankers. Greatly provoked, Nathan Rothschild sells government bonds...
...construction department for the massive sets of the Stockholm Castle and various other materials. In addition to John Gilbert, who plays the part of the impetuous role of Antonio, the Spanish Ambassador with whom Christina fell in love, the cast includes Ian Keith, Lewis Stone, Elizabeth Young and C. Aubrey Smith...
...MEMORIES of a Misspent Youth" is no mere book of memoirs basking in the glory of the great. It does, to be sure, tell much about the glamorous literary London of the nineties. It gives personal reminiscences of such diverse figures as Aubrey Beardsley and H. G. Wells. It includes many amusing anecdotes about the "Headly Rod" and the "Yaller Bok", about Oscar Wilde, George Moore, and about Israel Zangwill. But all this is incidental, as it pertains to the life of Grant Richards up to his twenty-third year. And this, his early life, he recounts with modesty, with...
SIDNEY LANIER-Aubrey Harrison Starke-University of North Carolina Press ($5). Life of a once well-known U. S. editor-poet...
Married. Elisabeth Reeve Morrow, 29, eldest daughter of the late Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow; and Aubrey Niel Morgan, Cardiff (Wales) public utilitarian; in Englewood, N. J. Planning to live abroad, Mrs. Morgan transferred her Little School to her mother and the school staff. An innovation was the mailing of wedding announcements second class (1 1/2 ? stamp...