Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famous vehicle portraying the impudent English dandy of 1800 who would not take an insult from a rotund Prince of Wales who did not look as prepossessing as he. Mr. Barrymore's remarkable virtuosity enables him to look like Adonis at the height of the Beau's career; like Ernest Torrence upon his downfall; like Lon Chancy as the palsied wreck of the once famed gallant. The story really has its climax at the start, and its romance ebbs and flows uncertainly. But it is held together by the power of Barrymore's true impersonation and startling...
camera. Virtuous Liars. One of those artist pictures in which we are to believe that a married woman seeking an artist's career in New York can win fame fastest if she poses as a widow to the denizens of baldhead row. Her scamp husband is put out of the way of her second marriage to the hero, by a shot...
...National Gallery. Not only did he provide the ?80,000 needed for the new building, but also collection of 65 modern British pictures to go in it. The founder on the inscription on the building, refers to its own gift as "a thank offering for a prosperous business career of 60 years." Sir Joseph Duveen, father of the present bearer of that title, a prominent art dealer, later donated the Turner collection and several extra rooms...
...coming production of "Jalouse" might have to be postponed until the present demonstration of official prudishness subsided. Now, however, the threatened calamity has been averted. Whatever may be the state of City Hall opinion in the Hub of the Universe, this way-ward spoke will continue its mad career along the primrose path, if not with the open sanction, at least with the tacit consent of its own particular Cato. The tradition of culture and individuality established half a century ago by the Brattle Street illuminati has been saved certainly for the present and possibly even for future generations...
...that historic achievement of Morris Gest's early career when, as publicity agent for Oscar Hammerstein, he proudly brought back from Europe a "stolid Berliner and his wife, sister and daughter, whom Gest bedecked in Moslem costumes, instructed to pray ostentatiously to the East every day on the boat coming over, and covered with fleeting fame by having them rejected at a Broadway hotel where they had tried to register as Abdul Kaffir and wives...