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...Silver Cord (RKO). If there is one thing which U. S. cinemaddicts have been taught to consider wholesome, if not sacred, it is Mother Love. The producers of this picture therefore deserve credit for their courage. The Silver Cord is a searching and bitter character study of a woman whose exaggerated affection for her children has made weaklings of them and a monster of herself. Mrs. Phelps (Laura Hope Crews) badgers one of her sons (Eric Linden) into breaking his engagement on the ground that his fianceé (Frances Dee) does not love him enough. The girl tries to commit...
...young couple arrange to have Ronald witness his wife being abducted. This leads him to leap out of the wheel chair to which his mother has reduced him, establish his independence by a rescue. Laura Hope Crews who played a serious version of the same role in The Silver Cord does as well as anyone possibly could with Mrs. Colgate. The picture is a minor injustice to her as well as to Zasu Pitts, whose woeful eyes, Lady Macbeth hands and forlorn nervous meanings have made her celebrated as Hollywood's only sad comedienne...
...November 1932 he rushed in as master of Errett Lobban Cord's proxy fight to gain control of Aviation Corp...
...good friend Mayor Frank Murphy. Streets were roped off, the house surrounded by guards. In the basement, police found remains of a crude, small black-powder bomb. The explosion had wrecked a steam-pipe, broken windows, spattered canned goods about. Otherwise, no damage. Only clue was a long white cord by which the bomb had perhaps been lowered into the cellar...
...complete the job of putting Avco on a paying basis, Mr. Cord last week chose a board of nine, himself included. Two were Cord executives: Vice President Lucius B. Manning of Cord Corp.; Major Lester Draper ("Bing") Seymour, a small, genial disciplinarian who flew with the A. E. F. and who has been president of American Airways since December. Two were Cord lawyers: stocky General Counsel Raymond S. Pruitt; Lyndol L. Young, who grew up with Cord in Los Angeles, hunted squirrels with him on the site of the Ambassador Hotel, graduated from the University of Southern California...