Word: cecile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among other things, the interview was not exclusive : Cecil Dickson of the Gan nett newspapers was along; so was Vice Minister of Information Hollington Tong, who pointed out, with Chinese courtesy, that Taylor must have suffered from a "misunderstanding." U.S. Ambassador Pat Hurley was not so gentle. Said...
...Voice, whose snappy double-breasted suits, flowing ties, and manicures are listed as "legitimate church expenses." Now California unions are fighting him tooth & nail. Last month they claimed a victory when the War Labor Board ordered him to continue a union contract at San Francisco's Hotel Cecil. But The Voice had already dodged out of range by selling the establishment (at a neat $60,000 profit) a month before. Undeterred, the unions last week were pressing cases against other church hotels in which salaried workers have been replaced by Bell's un-salaried employes...
...good word that Cecil Rhodes' weekly companion on his journeys to New York is none other than the famed Count de Wright. "Junior" is said to have found his love in Gotham...
...head (Cecil Kellaway) of the firm where Miss Colbert works and Mr. MacMurray used to, is 100% eager to exploit the romantic bonanza. While the hero is still believed to be dead, it is he who urges the heartbroken young woman to go on the air with a piece of made-up stiff-upper-lipping for bereft American womanhood ("You don't have to," he insists comfortingly); and it is he who urges her to repeat it, next day ("You don't have to," he again tells his employe) for the newsreels. When the hero returns alive, horribly...
Paramount Pictures, Inc. released "The Sign of the Cross" in December, 1932, with Cecil B. DeMille as director and with one of the first four-star casts: Claudette Colbert, Fredric March, Elissa Landi, Charles Laughton, and thousands of extras. Its reappearance is of interest to students of the cinema art, but by modern standards it is no longer good entertainment...