Word: clark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...humorous; Chinese loved him, foreigners respected him, and his employers listened to his advice. Losing such a trump infuriated the Japanese. Much more so did the British refusal, on the ground of insufficient evidence, to hand over four men suspected of the murder. British Ambassador to China Sir Archibald Clark Kerr considered the case more important than the comfort of British nationals in Tientsin, and so the Japanese declared the blockade...
Married. Robert Vanderpoel Clark, 21, Manhattan's No. 1 male debutant of 1938, Singer Sewing Machine Co. heir; and Suzanne de La Salle Chambers Hiteman, 36, French-born divorcee; he for the first time, she for the third; in Manhattan. At Glamor Boy Clark's coming-of-age party last November, celebrated in Manhattan's 21 Club, Glamor Girl Brenda Frazier and scores of other debutantes drank his health...
Died. Charles Clark Bradley, 60, gaunt-eyed Iowa judge; in Le Mars, Iowa. In 1933 a mob of farmers on whose homes he had refused to waive foreclosure proceedings dragged Judge Bradley from his courtroom, threatened to lynch him, poured axle grease on his face. Said he later: "They're still good people. They have been badly led, and their misfortunes are heavy upon them...
Biggest disappointment Mr. Clark experienced was his discovery that The Phoenix (1875) was not really lost; it was printed in one small edition in 1900. This play he thinks was the first to use the line, "And the villain still pursued her." Most painstaking search was for the script of Metamora: or, The Last of the Wampanoags, first actable U. S. drama about American Indians, and a favorite of Edwin Forrest. This week the Lost Plays series presents Flying Scud, one of six lost dramas by Dion Boucicault. Its claim to fame: the line...
...Motion Picture Herald's exhibitors' Poll, after Shirley Temple, Clark Gable...