Word: delmars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortune for its producers, Hollywood can be expected to exhibit amazement. No amazement is in order. Taking a subject about which everyone has speculated—the financial insecurity of old age—the picture examines the case of Barkley Cooper (Victor Moore) and his wife Lucy (Beulah Bondi). Adapted by Vina Delmar from Josephine Lawrence's novel, directed by Leo McCarey (Ruggles of Red Gap), the story is presented with rare cinematic honesty. It is acted by Victor Moore, in his first serious cinema role, and seasoned Beulah Bondi, with that effortless perfection which, because it can come only from long...
Died. Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings. 75, Chicago & Manhattan capitalist and famed trotting-horse breeder (Uhlan, Lou Dillon, The Harvester, Major Delmar); of pneumonia; at "Billings Park," near Santa Barbara, Calif. At 18 he entered Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co., succeeded his father as president in 1887, became board chairman of Union Carbide & Carbon Co. in 1929; Turfman Billings was celebrated for his "horseback" parties at Manhattan's Sherry's. Guests rode their horses into the elevators, ascended to the dining room while mounted, were served by liveried waiters while their horses munched oats...
...Delmar Leighton will be the Head Patroness this evening. The other patronesses are Mrs. Harold H. Burbank, Mrs. Henry Chauncey, and Mrs. James B. Munn. The Freshman ushers are Arthur Canter, William C. Coleman, Jr., Thomas V. Realy, Jr., B. Stephen Hall, William R. Maginder, Peter E. Pratt, Augustus Soule and William L. Wood...
Headed by Mrs. Delmar Leighton, the list of patronesses includes Mrs. James B. Conant, Mrs. Henry Chauncey, Mrs. Alfred C. Hanford, Mrs. Roger B. Merriman, and Mrs. E. A. Whitney...
PAMELA'S DAUGHTERS-Robert Palfrey Utter and Gwendolyn Bridges Needham -Macmillan ($3.50) Study of the changing status of women as disclosed by analysis of heroines of fiction from Richardson and Fielding to Vina Delmar and Nalbro Bartley (The Premeditated Virgin). A spirited, unusual book...