Word: blackmailed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like many historic happenings, Parnell's rise & fall contain potentialities of majestic drama. This picture explains Willie's suit for divorce as a somewhat transparent device to blackmail Parnell into giving him a political job. It shows Parnell dying of a stroke almost immediately after his Party has deserted him and before his marriage to Katie. It is at its best in earlier sequences showing Parnell speaking in Parliament at the time of the trial arising from the Phoenix Park case. Best bit part: Brandon Tynan, Dublin-born actor, who got 27 curtain calls the night...
...anxiety to warn an innocent young girl about the people she will meet in polite society, he has written Fay an outspoken letter about the other guests at the duchess' house party. Fay's gesture of tearing up the letter instead of using it for blackmail sharpens Author Lonsdale's point of showing that the British aristocracy could take lessons in morals from a sneak-thief. Good shot: William Powell-who hates sentiment and usually refuses to give it histrionic expression-saying farewell to Joan Crawford with tears in his eyes and a catch in his voice...
...attempting to blackmail Cinemactor Clark Gable, the Los Angeles Federal grand jury indicted dumpy Mrs. Violet Wells Norton, 47, of Winnipeg, who claimed that he is the father of 13-year-old Gwendolyn, one of her four illegitimate children...
...plume of Caroline Adams, she had written the book herself. Until its illustrator, Michael Grant (Melvyn Douglas), who had met Theodora on one of her rare trips to New York, arrived in Lynnnfield, there seemed no danger that her double life would be exposed. By good-humored blackmail, Grant compelled Theodora to persuade her maiden aunts to give him a job as gardener. Then he persuaded her to go berry-picking in trousers, fishing on Sunday morning and, in a final grand explosion of her inhibitions, to break with her aunts. In doing so Theodora also announced her love...
...Indian Princes, His Highness the progressive and benign Gaekwar of Baroda; second, the acquisitive and stern "Richest Man in the World," His Exalted Highness, the also progressive and enlightened Nizam of Hyderabad; and third, the weak and pleasure-loving Prince who was the victimized "Mr. A" of a notorious blackmail case in England twelve years ago (TIME, Oct. 25, 1925 et ante), His Highness the polo-playing Maharaja of Jammu & Kashmir. Of these three paramount potentates only the Nizam has had gumption to battle the British for every possible concession Hyderabad can wangle out of the new Constitution. Chief battler...