Word: centenarians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three acts it could not do better in one. Its sharpish characterizations never make up for its dragging plot. Actress Barrymore, looking like a cross between her Brother Lionel and the wolf dressed up as Red Riding Hood's grandmother, carries the whole play on her bent, centenarian back. Her expert performance gains in effect from the audience's kindly feeling that anything a 101-year-old woman says is remarkably witty...
Died. Julia Richards, III, famed cigar-smoking centenarian of Yolo County, Calif.; of old age; in Yolo...
...Walpole from his own novel, is an earnest, lachrymose romance of the Jubilee Era, slightly oversold on its message, Love Will Find a Way. Benjie Herries (Robert Montgomery) is the black sheep of a huge English manor-house and bagpipe family. Other members of the family include a female centenarian (May Robson), lovely young Vanessa (Helen Hayes) and an anti-social introvert with a persecution complex (Otto Kruger). The trouble starts when Benjie goes to China instead of marrying Vanessa immediately. When he gets back, the manor house burns down and she suspects him of cowardice in not rescuing...
Installed. Dr. Thomas Darlington, 73, of Manhattan; as Grand Sachem of the Tammany Society (Hall) to succeed the late centenarian John Richard Voorhis (TIME...
Despite Duke Borea d'Olmo centenarian zeal, the three royal special trains were an hour late in reaching Assisi; a thunderstorm burst; Princess Giovanna dropped her bridal bouquet into the gutter; Tsar Boris was soaked to the skin; during the ceremony tear after tear coursed down the cheeks of the bride...