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...treasure hunts, evening clothes and "keeping fit." It is another caste-mark of such persons that they have nothing better to do than indulge their romantic emotions; the habit gets them into typical difficulties in this picture. A lady aviator (Katharine Hepburn) meets Sir Christopher Strong, M. P. (Colin Clive), at a treasure hunt. He is a faithful husband, she a virgin. This prompts them to have an affaire. Lady Strong (Billie Burke) is distressed. Monica Strong (Helen Chandler) is distressed also, but she is preoccupied about her own romance with a young man of fashion (Ralph Forbes...
...handles Queen Victoria's funeral, the embarkation of troops for the Boer war and later the Great War, the scene between the two lovers on the "unsinkable ship," and the personal tragedies with simplicity and astonishing dramatic skill. Much of this was only made possible by the performances of Clive Brook as Sir Robert Marryot and Diana Wynward as Lady Marryot. None of the leading players can escape the highest praise...
Cavalcade (Fox). On New Year's Eve, 1899, Robert Marryot (Clive Brook) and his wife (Diana Wynyard) are drinking a toast to the new century. Below stairs their butler, Bridges, is finding fault with the parlormaid, Mrs. Bridges...
Here, according to billboards, is "Conan Doyle's Immortal Story Masterfully Told." Here, "Masterfully," is Clive Brook at grips with modern gangsters, a Sherlock Holmes in love, a Sherlock Holmes who knows the cute trick of discovering biscuit crumbs on people's waistcoats, who pronounces "elementary" with the grand air, who jumps out of high balconies onto villainous necks, who wields acetylene torches and shoots to kill. This is no Sherlock Holmes, this is Hollywood's "Masterful" attempt to shatter an illusion...
...librarian at General Theological Seminary. Princeton teachers but not "preceptor guys" were Scientists Sir James Hopwood Jeans and Owen Willans Richardson. Variously famed are Connecticut's Senator Hiram Bingham (Yaleman), Novelist Maxwell Struthers Burt, Songman Sigmund Spaeth and his crew-coaching, English-teaching half-brother John Duncan, Donald Clive Stuart, adviser of the Triangle Club, Charles William Kennedy, retired chairman of the Committee on Athletics...