Word: del
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another important negative at Buenos Aires was the omission of the U. S. last week to join in otherwise unanimous approval by the Americas of linking up the principal American and other peace treaties (such as the Kellogg-Briand Pact) with the League of Nations. Chilean Delegate Felix Nieto Del Rio put Messrs. Hull & Welles on a spot by declaring the U. S. had "abstained." They got off by insisting the U. S. had "withheld." In any case the U. S. is not having any League of Nations in its Good Neighborhood this week, and Geneva can smoke that...
...backstage musicomedy, ends in the formula of a courtroom melodrama. The transition occurs when someone murders the leading lady (Florence Desmond) of a Paris revue, just after her advances to the show's male dancer (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) have aroused the indignation of his knife-throwing wife (Dolores Del...
...conscientious members of the vast theatre population which is one of London's chief attractions as a cinema capital, it suffers from a torpor so pronounced that U. S. audiences are likely to suspect that the murdered leading lady is not really dead but dozing. Good shot: Dolores Del Rio-whose next U. S. picture will be Devil's Playground-in a jealous rage...
...Castle, Del...
...David Stern's rampantly pro-New Deal Philadelphia Record, spectacled Gerald Aloysius ("Jerry") Doyle flays the Big Interests daily for the edification of some 328,222 readers. Last week one Doyle drawing particularly tickled none other than Eugene (Liberty League) du Pont, millionaire munitions manufacturer of nearby Wilmington, Del., whose daughter Ethel is to marry Franklin Roosevelt Jr. in June. The cartoon that delighted Mr. du Pont showed young Roosevelt as Romeo beneath a balcony festooned with elephant-cupids on which a "Juliet du Pont" (see cut) declaimed: "Tis but thy name that is my enemy. . . . What...