Word: blakeney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (Alexander Korda). To save a remaining few aristocratic necks from Robespierre's guillotine, Producer Korda rounds up Sir Percy Blakeney's old crowd of counter-revolutionists, sends them out after Robespierre's own head. Famous Scarlet Pimpernel was well-schooled Actor Leslie Howard. The new one is Actor Barry Barnes, who is very British, often squeaky, and leads the cast in overacting...
...Wayne (Jessie Matthews), assistant cinema critic on a Fleet Street paper, is assigned to cover the movements of a U. S. film star (Olive Blakeney) whom Scotland Yard suspects of being an international jewel thief. Pat, determined to dog her quarry to earth's end, signs on as the actress's maid, quickly gets into difficulties which result in her hiding in a trunk. Next thing she knows she is aboard a liner which is returning the cinemactress to the U. S. Also aboard is a young detective (Barry Mackay) and a U. S. gangster (Nat Pendleton), both...
...LIFE AND EXPLOITS OF THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL-John Blakeney (with a foreword by the Baroness Orczy)-Washburn ($2.50). In the form of a full-dress biography, Author Blakeney tells all that is left to tell about the Scarlet Pimpernel...
CAPITALIZING on the new wave of interest in The Scarlet Pimpernel evoked by a Hollywood adaptation of Baroness Orczy's novel, Mr. Blakeney presents what is supposed to be the accurate story of his life and exploits. Mr. Blakeney's Scarlet Pimpernel is so much like the novelized personage that the book is hardly worth the trouble he took in filling in missing gaps and adding all sorts of anecdotes. It is not stated that the author is a descendant of the illustrious Blakeney's; indeed, his extreme adulation of them all would prove a bit nauseating if one knew...
...pedigree of "that demmed elusive Pimpernel" is traced back five generations to the "Laughing Cavalier" whom Franz Hals painted, a Dutch vagabond and swaggerer, son of the merchant John Blake of Blakeney and a young Haarlem girl, Philippina. Percy's early life is described, and later the important part which he played in heckling the French Revolutionists. The first indication that the author's Percy Blakeney is going to turn out to be just what movie-goers of today think him, comes in the narrative during Percy's first day at Harrow, in his twelfth year...