Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government's efforts to extradite him, Samuel Insull was ordered out of Greece. The understanding was that Fugitive Insull was leaving on the Orient Express for Paris. The sniveling old man who was charged with fraudulent bankruptcy and embezzlement in the U. S. took to his bed, but doctors certified him well enough to travel...
...Rothschild whisks his money bags into the cellar, gives each of his children a crust to gnaw, pops the roastbeef into a garbage box. and talks the collector into taking a bribe. As shrewd as he is stingy, Mayer Amschel Rothschild gets a good idea on his death bed. He tells his five sons to found banking houses in the five greatest cities in Europe. Nathan Rothschild (George Arliss), third son of 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...
...theatre, Sidney Howard retells it in 29 scenes played without an intermission against an "essentialist"' setting devised by Jo Mielziner. The background of the stage, a flight of stairs surmounted by a sort of cage to represent a laboratory, does not change. A few essential props-a bed, the back flap of a tent, a hospital cot-indicate scenes where necessary. That the most genuinely heroic human activities do not always make the most stirring dramas is a fact which does not greatly injure the effect of Yellow Jack, which remains an honest interesting chronicle about...
...Three Forks, Mont., when a farmer complained that his cows were being milked by marauders at night, deputy sheriffs kept watch. Their vigil was rewarded when the complainant appeared in his nightgown, milked his own cows, threw the milk to his sleeping pigs, somnambulated back to bed...
Paramout and Fenway--"Dark Hazard." Edward G. Robinson and Genevieve Tobin are together again in a gambling story; capable acting by both. "She Made Her Bed." All that title indicates...