Word: barone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Often dollar-hostile, the newsorgans of Baron Beaverbrook veered around like weathercocks last week to crow the praises of dollars in general and of newly-arrived Ambassador Andrew William Mellon, dollar Croesus...
...fortune until he is today a man of merely comfortable means. He was bumbling the Conservative Party down the same hill 22 months ago, his most spectacular mistakes being to have no tariff policy, either for or against, and to have bitterly antagonized Britain's two potent press lords, Baron Beaverbrook and Viscount Rothermere, men of fierce patriotism but as easily enraged as small, spoiled boys. What the Conservative Party needed and what it has had increasingly in recent months has been the cold, hard, managing head of a CHAMBERLAIN?that mighty name from Birmingham...
...hotel is well filled. In one room lives a ballet-dancer (Greta Garbo) who is bored by her art and her existence. Conveniently near, so that he can filch her pearls, is an attractive and impoverished Baron (John Barrymore). In a corridor, the Baron makes friends with a pretty stenographer (Joan Crawford). She is waiting to take dictation from a disagreeable textile tycoon (Wallace Beery). The tycoon, named Preysing, is so engrossed in dishonest tricks to escape financial ruin that he fails to recognize one of his own clerks. The clerk (Lionel Barrymore) is incurably ill; he has come...
...superior to imitations of it already produced (Transatlantic, Union Depot, Hotel Continental). Edmund Goulding's direction is brilliant but the picture's greatest virtue, as it should be, is its acting. Garbo is less numb than usual and gives her best performance. John Barrymore makes the Baron a scapegrace so admirable as to be a larger blot upon the escutcheon of the Hays organization than six gangsters. Lionel Barrymore makes you believe that his collar is an inch too big for him. Good shot : the lobby of the Grand Hotel, looking down from a balcony on the sixth...
...well done. I have just published a novel myself which has been described as 'having a respect for the decencies'-presumably because that is so unusual a thing." Books written by Author-Publisher Lord Gorell include: Babes in the African Wood; Rosamund; Plush; Gauntlet (1931). To the Baron last week Prince George wrote a gracious acknowledgment on the stationery for which he recently designed his own monogram: an Old English G, surmounted by a coronet and surrounded by the Garter. (Same monogram on his handkerchiefs.) "Prince George is," declared a St. James's Palace spokesman recently...