Word: cecils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supposedly been administered by one "Douglas Garrick," fictitious character created for advertising purposes. In Hollywood, the "Lux Theatre" also had a dummy director, but this time he could walk and talk. While production was actually handled by J. Walter Thompson men, it was announced that oldtime Cinema Director Cecil B. De Milk was putting on the radio show. For his opening program from Hollywood, California's De Mille presented handsome Clark Gable and long-legged Marlene Dietrich, in a radio version of the six-year-old cinema Morocco. Miss Dietrich, whose voice is not her most celebrated asset, fascinated...
Mary by an Englishman, Artist Cecil Beaton. "The decorations have a monotony without uniformity," wrote this lily-loving young photographer of noble ladies. "There is too much woodwork. . . . The main lounge sadly misses the discarded Duncan Grant mural. The effort at being modern is decidedly forced. . . . The Veranda Grill, however, is by far the prettiest room on any ship. . . . When constructing a boat, even a luxury liner, the English do not consider their women very carefully...
...Chamberlain then crushingly referred to efforts by Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, president of the British League of Nations Union, to rally British public opinion in support of Sanctions and against Italy. Lord Cecil had just issued "the most serious, most urgent communication" he had ever made to the British public, declaring: "Since our honor and the future of our civilization are involved, we have the right to demand that our Gov ernment should openly declare its conviction that the Covenant of the League of Nations must be carried out. . . . Sanctions should be maintained and if necessary increased...
Died. John Hays Hammond Sr., 81, famed mining engineer, President Taft's most trusted confidant and adviser; of heart disease; in Gloucester, Mass. Hired by Cecil Rhodes in 1893 at his own terms, he successfully introduced deep-level mining in the Rand Gold Field, made money hand over fist. For his part in the Jameson raid into the Transvaal, he was sentenced to death, finally went free for a $125,000 fine...
Settled by compromise in Hollywood was the court battle between the aunt and parents of Cinemactor Freddie Bartholomew over the guardianship of the 12-year-old star (TIME, April 20). Mr. & Mrs. Cecil Llewelyn Bartholomew agreed to split Freddie's $1,250 weekly income with Miss Myllicent ("Aunt Cissie") Bartholomew, leave her exclusive control of his cinema career...