Word: butlered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan Nicholas Murray Butler named a committee of 17, mostly college professors, to investigate the economic crisis, recommend solutions. Included were Walter Lippmann, George Soulé, Edmund...
...away with Iseult, niece of famed, beauteous Patriot Maud Gonne MacBride, whose husband had been executed in the 1916 rising. Now he lives in Glendalough (Dublin suburb), flies a plane, raises chickens, tries to find in his writing a harmony for the Irish soul. Backed by William Butler Yeats and George Bernard Shaw, he has just been nominated to membership in the new Irish Academy of Letters. Other books: Pigeon Irish, We Have Kept the Faith (verse, given a prize by the Royal Irish Academy...
Cavalcade (Fox). On New Year's Eve, 1899, Robert Marryot (Clive Brook) and his wife (Diana Wynyard) are drinking a toast to the new century. Below stairs their butler, Bridges, is finding fault with the parlormaid, Mrs. Bridges...
...nursery, two small Marryots, Edward and Joe, are feebly pretending to be asleep. A year later, Robert Marryot and Bridges are back from the Boer War. The children, gobbling cake, watch Queen Victoria's funeral from a balcony. By 1908, Bridges and his wife have acquired a pub. Butler Bridges has taken to drinking up the profits and his small daughter Fanny is dancing in the streets. In 1912, Edward Marryot and the daughter of his mother's oldest friend are honeymooning, on the Titanic. In 1914, Joe Marryot is just old enough to get into...
...cast. Leslie Howard is Tom Collier. In response to a comment on the cold weather, he says, "I think we'd better bring the brass monkeys indoors tonight," so smoothly that the Hays organization allowed the line to stay. William Gargan is Collier's ex-pugilist butler. Funniest scene is when Gargan, drunk, tries to get up courage to resign while Collier tries to get up courage to discharge him. Mr. Rothafel selected The Animal Kingdom as the first attraction at the RKO Roxy theatre, which opened its doors in Rockefeller Center last week two days after...