Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Richard Webster Leche, New Orleans' Mayor Robert Sidney Maestri, and Seymour Weiss-by "going over" to the 1940 gubernatorial candidacy of rebellious ex-Governor James Albert Noe. Another hot candidate for Huey Long's old crown, as yet firmly on no man's head, is his brother, Earl, now Lieutenant-Governor...
Oscar Hubbard (Carl Benton Reid) is mean, tightlipped, greedy; his brother Ben (Charles Dingle) shrewder, more capable, more sardonic; their sister Regina (Tallulah Bankhead) grandly and coldly ambitious for wealth, power, position. The trio's business schemes require the financial help of Regina's dying husband; and, sick of their vulpine methods, he refuses it. Out of this deadlock springs powerful drama of intramural conspiring and double-crossing, theft and virtual murder...
Died. (Thomas) Gilbert White, 61, famed, long-maned U. S. expatriate muralist, brother of Novelist Stewart Edward White and Violinist Roderick White; after an intestinal operation; in Paris. Four years ago Henry Wallace tried to have one of Painter White's murals (once called "Ladies in Cheesecloth") removed from the Department of Agriculture Building, failed, thereupon attached to the bottom a small plate: "Approved in 1932 by Andrew W. Mellon and Arthur Hyde...
...gives a really lovable portrayal. His presentation of Ginger Ted is a worthy addition to comedy. Mrs. Laughton in the contrasting but amenable role of a young Florence Nightingale variety of missionary, is convincing but on the verge of presenting a caricature rather than a real person. Her stage brother, missionary-clergyman-doctor, is on the point of the ridiculous, but he is not seen often. One of the picture's outstanding features is magnificent scenic photography of the Pacific archipelago where most of the story takes place...
Pretty Mary Rogers (Sylvia Sidney) lives in a firetrap. When a fire breaks out, her small brother falls off a ladder, a bystander (Leif Erikson) takes both to the hospital. He turns out to be the owner of the tenement. Convinced that he has been remiss, he decides to pull down all his old tenements, put up better ones. Legal, social and domestic difficulties impede him. But when the tenement where Mary Rogers lives flares up again, he finally goes to work...