Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ivar Kreuger and Samuel Insull. In 1903 London & Globe Co. crashed. Whitaker Wright was charged with issuing false balance sheets. So complicated was the financial maze he had built that no lawyer in England wanted the case. Rufus Isaacs agreed to prosecute it. For days he stood in Old Bailey, his eyes sharp and penetrating beneath a pushed back wig, suavely questioning, blandly dissecting the answers he received. Swindler Wright grew pale as he realized that at last someone could untangle his involved deceptions. A jury found him guilty, a judge sentenced him to seven years imprisonment. Sharp-eyed Counsel...
Married. Alfredo Codona, Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey aerial trapezist; and his partner Vera Bruce; in San Antonio...
Like other Marx Brothers pictures (The Cocoanuts, Monkey Business) this one is distinguished by an irrationality which is only vaguely challenged by romantic episodes concerning Zeppo Marx. This time Zeppo is attached to a blonde Miss Bailey (Thelma Todd), the college widow. Groucho, Chico and Harpo also attempt to become familiar with Miss Bailey. She tries to steal the signals of the Huxley football team from President Groucho by taking him for a ride in a canoe. Groucho lets her paddle, throws her a candy life-saver when she falls out. Presently, Chico and Harpo go to kidnap...
...claimed that Frankie Bailey had the most beautiful form of the oldtime beauties. Someone told him King Edward VII preferred May Yohe. "So?" said Ziegfeld. "Well, King Edward was no judge...
...games, by getting out of the train and running along beside it. Later he wins the mile race by accident when chasing a girl on a motorcycle to give her a letter. Lady & Gent (Paramount). Throughout this picture George Bancroft has a miserable time. He is Slag Bailey, a superannuated pugilist who turns up drunk for the bout on which his manager (James Gleason) has bet their last nickel. Beaten, his ruin is completed when his mistress. Puff (Wynne Gibson), has her night club wrecked by gangsters, when his manager gets shot while opening a fight club's safe...