Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barr. This eugenic experiment is finally successful after Cabot Barr has forbidden his granddaughter to have anything to do with the adopted son. Cabot's son, afraid of losing his inheritance, tries to prove his father insane, but is unsuccessful. But the shock is too much for the old boy. He makes his will and gradually dies away. After his death the whole family is summoned to hear his will read, and there are surprises for every...
Only Scovill left in Scovill is H. Lamson Scovill, a director. The $40,000,000 company is completely dominated by the sons and grandsons of the late Chauncey Porter Goss, who went into Scovill as an errand boy during the Civil War, was president from the turn of the Century to the end of the War. Present head of Scovill is Edward Otis Goss, an affable hard-headed Yankee of 69 who is Waterbury's first citizen and a peer in the Connecticut industrial realm. Below him are four Goss vice presidents, most important of whom is his brother...
...presence of something appallingly ugly in the relations between her father and mother. She learns enough to perceive that Frank Hilliard, an actor whom her mother admires, is somehow responsible. This knowledge merely makes the situation more puzzling than ever. Her only ally is a cockney confectioner's boy in whose cellar she hides after she has gone to Hilliard's apartment one evening and seen her mother's coat thrown down across a sofa. It is the confectioner's boy who saves her life when, at the end of the picture, after being forced...
...shade too long, and at times too conscious of its message, Little Friend (the title is an ironic use of the nickname Hilliard gives to Felicity Hughes) is certainly one of the more distinguished British importations of the season. Good shot: Felicity dancing with the confectioner's boy at her birthday party...
Died. Charles ("Pretty Boy") Floyd, 30, desperado; of gunshot wounds inflicted by Federal agents led by Melvin Purvis, Dillinger hero near East Liverpool, Ohio. Fortnight ago, after police learned he was one of three thugs responsible for the Union Station massacre in Kansas City last year, Floyd was flushed out of an Iowa farm (TIME, Oct. 22), badly wounded, chased through a half-dozen states to his death...