Word: derr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Change, Charlie Chan's Greatest Case, Charlie Chan's Courage, Charlie Chan in London. No longer bothered to invent new titles, Fox will presently release Charlie Chan in Buenos Aires, Charlie Chan in Morocco. Derived from the Saturday Evening Post stories by the late Earl Derr Diggers, the cinema Chan has exhausted the original supply. Now, though Author Diggers' widow receives a royalty on each, Chan's cases and his mottoes are invented for him by Fox scenarists. Almost anyone who is not otherwise engaged around the Fox studio serves as his director. Aside from their...
...Boston: "Charlie Chan In London"--not the best of this series of mystery films based upon Earl Derr Bigger's stories about the philosophic detective Chan. This theatre has the added disadvantage of a long and typically dull vaudeville bill...
Died. Le Baron Russell Briggs, 79, longtime Harvard clean & English professor; suddenly, of a heart ailment; while visiting his daughter in Milwaukee. Famed as a teacher of writing, he taught: Earl Derr Biggers, E. E. Cummings, Joseph Auslander, John Dos Passes, Frederick Lewis Allen, Conrad Aiken, Robert Benchley...
Keeper of the Keys (adapted by Valentine Davies; Sigourney Thayer producer). This vehicle for the late Earl Derr Biggers' famed Detective Charlie Chan largely goes to prove that the wily inspector and his ponderous Chinese proverbs are better off on the screen or between book covers than on the stage. An ex-husband of a leering opera singer assembles her and three of his marital successors in his Lake Tahoe hunting lodge. Actor William Harrigan, a younger, sleeker, slightly more occidental Chan than cinema's Warner Oland, gets a head start when he is added to the party...
HOLLIS 10--Earl Derr Biggers, Famous detective novelist, and creator of Charlie Chan, occupied this room...