Word: crookedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Donn Byrne died in 1928 but Maurice Walsh carries on in Donn Byrne manner. Author Walsh writes of Ireland, but not the Ireland of Yeats, Synge or Joyce. His Erin is a Ruritania set to music, a light operetta in which broken hearts, murder, the open road, gentlemen disguised as...
In Hollywood, Miss Sullavan follows the current fashion for shyness. She keeps an official residence with a secretary to answer telephone calls, lives in a small house with Lisbeth, uses no makeup, dresses in moccasins, old sweater & trousers. She swims 30 times up & down her pool every morning, 30 more...
In the 6th Century the Picts. shrinking into their lairs from the wind that blows off the Firth of Tay from the North Sea, called the place Kilrymont or Muckross. Later St. Regulus, the Bishop of Patras in Achaea, was guided thither bearing the relics of St. Andrew. Angus. King...
Manhattan Melodrama (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) opens spectacularly with the General Slocum disaster out of which are tossed two orphaned boys into Manhattan's East Side. One is studious while the other shoots craps. Years later the student has become district attorney, the crapshooter a top-money gambler. If Jim...
Barbara Stanwyck as "Gambling Lady" successfully plays her way through an unusually complex plot. Her father, Mike, the "last of the honest gamblers," commits suicide, in preference to turning dishonest, when he goes broke. Lady Lee gets a job with a crooked gambling syndicate and despite all temptations, she always...