Word: craven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wilbur--"That's Gratitude." The perennial revival of Frank Craven's whimsical comedy of farm life in the Land of the Fall Corn...
...Frank Craven, the playwright, apparently noting this tendency that the Germans are calling "Gemutlichkelt", paces his production slowly and sets it in a middle class home in Kansas. Here the audience is given a lesson in speeding the parting guest. Taylor Holmes is the unwanted visitor who gets the gate. Not only does he have to leave but when he tries to reciprocate evil with good by finding a career, for one of the girls in the family where he had been staying, the girl elopes on the night he had planned to announce his engagement...
Wilbur--"That's Gratitude." Taylor Holmes and J. C. Nugent in an amusing comedy by Frank Craven...
Died. William George Bradley, Fifth Earl of Craven, 35; at Pau, France. At 19. he married the town clerk's daughter, went to war, lost a leg. At 24 he inherited the title when his father drowned. Soon afterwards he eloped with the wife of Earl Cathcart. After several years of travel, they visited the U. S. The Earl of Craven was admitted, Countess Cathcart barred on the ground of "moral turpitude...
...wore a patch on his eye instead of a sling on his arm, Hearst-Reporter Floyd Gibbons might have good grounds for a libel suit. Correspondent Franklin Bennett (Ralph Graves) chatters rapidly into microphones while covering Sino-Japanese hostilities and has several even more unpleasant traits. He is a craven poseur who romanticizes his newsgathering exploits hoping that his public will consider him a hero. The antagonism between Ralph Graves and Jack Holt which has been maintained through several recent pictures is more bitter than usual in this one. Holt is a thick-skinned aviator who sells his services...