Word: broker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conversation at Midnight brings together a priest, an artist, a writer of advertising copy, a Communist poet, a rich broker, a Liberal dilettant and a slick magazine writer for after-dinner dialog in verse. Poet Millay, who once acted at Vassar and Provincetown, asks her readers to think of her Conversation in terms of the theatre, but she appends an index of first lines so that segments may be read as single poems. Readers will immediately observe 1) that the most feminine living poet has attempted not one but several distinct masculine idioms, with considerable charm but only here...
...boiled down to the skeleton for a succession of vaudeville turns most of which are as familiar as the players who take part in them. Best sketch, taken from Life Begins at 8:40 (1934): Milton Berle as a stock speculator hysterically caught in the toils of a greedy broker...
Suing for divorce. Mrs. Maxine Rickard Dailey Gill, widow of late Fight Promoter Tex Rickard; from Thomas Gill, Chicago broker; in Chicago. Grounds: cruelty. After Promoter Rickard died in 1929, Mrs. Rickard married one Frank Dailey. He died and in 1936 she married Broker Gill...
...Keene. His disappearance was apparently the first drama in Mr. Keene's life. He had lived with his wife in a modest residential hotel in Washington, had a son who had graduated from Annapolis. Once an architect, at 63 he was a not too prosperous real estate broker, bound for Norfolk cheaply by boat presumably to complete an inconsequential real-estate deal...
...rank star and the cinema's No. 1 symbol of sex appeal. She held her rank with Red Dust, Dinner at Eight, Blonde Bombshell, China Seas, Wife Versus Secretary, Libeled Lady, all made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Her first husband, with whom she eloped at 16, was Chicago Broker Charles McGrew, whom she divorced before she went to Hollywood. Her second was Producer Paul Bern, a suicide in 1932. Her third, Cameraman Hal Rosson, she divorced in 1934 for reading in bed. For the last two years her most regular Hollywood escort was Cinemactor William Powell. When she fell...