Word: burgesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pressagent, pretending that the affianced couple are expecting a child, exhibits a tiny sweater. The actress shudders eloquently. Hipper's Holiday (by John Crump; Marian T. Carter, producer) is an amateur effort to make a farce of an amateur kidnapping. A cowardly young hobo named Jim Hipper (Burgess Meredith) perpetrates the crime, but his victim is a tougher and slicker criminal than he. In the process of trying to get ransom without calling in the police, the kidnappee gets half a dozen characters and a hopelessly complicated situation on the stage by the end of Act II. When...
...Coat and Glove (RKO). A married woman (Barbara Robbins) visits a young artist's flat, carelessly leaves her beret behindc Her lawyer-husband (Ricardo Cortez) goes to the flat, finds there the artist's discarded mistress (Dorothy Burgess), tries unsuccessfully to prevent her from shooting herself, departs without noticing that he has left his glove on the floor. The hat, the glove and the overcoat on which his mistress expires are introduced as evidence when the artist (John Beal) is tried for her murder. His attorney is the husband of the lady who owns the beret...
...lean, thin-lipped, high-strung writer named Louis Burgess, who turned out editorials for $75 a week on Hearst's San Francisco Examiner until last spring, when he was elected chairman of the Guild's newly organized Examiner chapter. Three weeks later the Examiner discharged him "for the sake of economy." Louis Burgess complained to the NRA Regional Labor Board which, amid considerable uproar, heard his case last fortnight. Hearst was represented by his brainy lawyer John Francis Neylan and Clarence Lindner, general manager of the Examiner...
...have the honor of presenting to the President and Follows of Harvard College, albeit as yet in embryonic form. The George Burgess Magrath Library of Legal Medicine...
...This is an informal gathering, and I know it is your wish to make the cere-mony as simple and as brief as possible; however, I should like to say a few words about the happy circumstances that the library is to be known as the George Burgess Magrath Library of Legal Medicine. It is fitting that the name of one of the outstanding leaders in the field of legal medicine should be associated with this library. Moreover, it is pleasing to all of us that Dr. Magrath, who has been connected with Harvard almost all of his life, should...