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According to the DeMille theory, the Third Crusade started when a Holy Man (C. Aubrey Smith), presumably Peter the Hermit who lived 100 years earlier, toured the courts of Europe and persuaded a dozen kings to besiege Jerusalem. Richard Coeur de Lion (Henry Wilcoxon) was the last to enlist and did so for no better reason than to escape a marriage with King Philip of France's sister Alice (Katherine DeMille). This turns out to be most advantageous. Before embarking at Marseille, Richard gets a boatload of cattle and feed for his army by marrying the daughter...
...Lung is wallowing in a ferment of plots, counterplots, scandals and frustrations. Captain Gaskell has broken with China Doll to become engaged to Sybil (Rosalind Russell). China Doll, chagrined, has stolen his key to the ship's armory, given it to MacArdle. The owner of the line (C. Aubrey Smith) has delivered a short talk on the lure of the Orient. During the typhoon a lashed steamroller has rolled loose on deck, crushing coolies until, owing to the cowardice of his third officer (Lewis Stone), Captain Gaskell is forced to rechain it almost singlehanded. When the pirates board...
...times his whole family of four had to live on his $3.50 weekly wage. As he grew older Aubrey got other jobs, studied nights in a Y.M.C.A. He earned his way at Maryville College, Tenn. by painting signs and at University of Cincinnati by managing a Chautauqua. A post-War stay in France got him a doctor's degree at the University of Bordeaux. Not until he reached 30 was he ready to begin the career of social work in Ohio and Wisconsin which was eventually to make him the No. 2 U. S. Relief man. a tall, gentle, tweedy...
...Aubrey Williams' rich planter grandfather voluntarily freed a thousand slaves, involuntarily lost the rest of his property in the Civil War. Trained only for leisure, Aubrey Williams' father turned to manual labor, became a notably unsuccessful blacksmith. Son Aubrey went to work at 6 in a torpedo factory, at 7 became cash-boy in a Birmingham department store...
...executive order the President forthwith created a National Youth Administration, with Aubrey Williams as executive director, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Josephine Roche as executive committee chairman. Following the usual New Deal formula, there were to be 48 State Youth Divisions under 48 State Youth Directors, plus Youth Committees in cities, towns, counties. Beneficiaries would be all boys & girls aged 16 to 25 not regularly attending school...