Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francis is as attractive as usual, which is high praise. Clive Brook continues to have the most expressive eyebrows in Hollywood and is as much the suave glacier as ever...
When three such eminent film celebrities such as George Bancroft, Kay Francis, and Clive Brook are gathered together for a movie, one is led to expect some rather entertaining fireworks. As a matter of fact, "Scandal Sheet", now at the University, is a good deal like the old parable of the sky-rocket...
...Bulletin" sets a great deal of store by his managing editor. The circulation of the paper increases and a reputation is ruined once an issue. Then one day Mr. Bancroft learns that his wife, who is dearer than life itself, is in love with the successful banker. Clive Brook. The managing editor goes to his wife to verify the story with blood shot eyes, distrait hair, and a wild look. One gathers that it is an ordeal for Mr. Bancroft. The next shot shows him dictating the story to his stenographer in a heavy, toneless voice. That good...
...dramatic critic's joke. An old admirer of lovely Lady Isabel causes all her trouble when he takes her, unchaperoned, to a dance, and later goes to her bedroom to tell her of his love. East Lynne is not worth the talent that has gone into it (Clive Brook, Ann Harding, and Conrad Nagel form the triangle, and Joseph Urban designed the settings), but it is an honorable Victorian relic. Silliest sequences: the end in which Ann Harding, about to go blind, goes home for a last look at her child before walking over a cliff...
...Autogiro Co. of America advertised to the public that autogiros may now be bought, and 2) Detroit News bought and received the first commercial autogiro in the world. Next month one will be taken by Standard Oil Co. of New York and one by Horizon Co., subsidiary of Silver Brook Anthracite Co. specially formed to operate the ship because the coal company's rules forbid its officers to fly. Last month the Navy ordered one for experiment (TIME, Feb. 9). Some purport to see in the autogiro the means of putting aviation on a new basis, viz, the long...