Word: barone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Meet the Baron (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is violent slapstick with a holocaust of puns. Comedian Jack Pearl takes the Baron Munchausen role he has played for the past 15 months on the radio. To the comedy of the howling lie, the stooge's skepticism and Pearl's definitive reply, "Vass you dere, Sharlie?" have been added Comedian Jimmy Durante and his masochistic schnozzle; Comedian Ted Healy; and three stooges who by the simple device of tirelessly clouting one another are nearly as funny as the Marx Brothers...
...plot: A real Baron Munchausen, sailing into New York Harbor, cannot appear because he has heard that the husband of his mistress is on board. He exchanges identities with the ship's tailor, Jack Pearl, who promptly takes on a manager, Jimmy Durante. In a rain of ticker-tape, as thousands cheer, the two impostors ride expansively up Broadway. When Pearl recognizes the fundament of his Aunt Sophie who is washing a window, he plunges head-down in the automobile and Durante, with a vulgarity at once extravagantly bold and strangely shy, notes the family resemblance. In a broadcasting...
...lecture at Cuddle College for girls, Pearl falls in love with a chambermaid, Zasu Pitts. The lovemaking of the strange pair touches a charming note which Director Walter Lang quickly suppresses. A chorus of girl students, Ted Healy and stooges prance energetically through the proceedings. Finally the leal Baron and then Pearl's Aunt Sophie arrive and thoroughly expose the impostors. Miss Pitts, inconsolable, finds her hero is a pants-presser but follows Pearl anyway - and he is offered a fabulous radio contract. The picture ends with Manager Durante, in a state of wild-eyed, concentrated insanity, dickering with...
...Newfoundland. Their company, now named H. G. Hawker Engineering Co. Ltd., produces nearly half the planes currently flown by the Royal Air Force. His rich business enabled Builder Sopwith to live in a mansion near Park Lane. After the death of his first wife, a daughter of 8th Baron Ruthven, in 1930 he sold the house to the Crown. (It is now occupied by Princess Mary and her husband, the 6th Earl of Harewood.) Last year he married Phyllis Brodie Gordon, a bright blonde with pretty teeth...
...bill, had attached all his clothes instead. Banker Otto Hermann Kahn sold "St. Dunstan's," his 12-acre estate in aristocratic Regents Park, London (until 1928 used as a hospital for blind British War veterans) to the London Daily Mail's Publisher Harold Sidney Harmsworth, Baron Rothermere of Hemsted. Banker Kahn's 800-acre estate at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. is also for sale. Frank Jay Gould, famed expatriate, youngest son of the late Jay Gould, leased his depression-starved $5,000,000 baccarat casino in Nice to a French syndicate for 2,500,000 francs...