Word: dion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first visit in nine years was stately Maxine Elliott (Jessie Dermot), 62, once famed as the most beauteous U. S. actress. Trained by Dion Boucicault, one of the numerous wives and leading ladies of Comedian Nat Good win, she became a star in 1903. When Ethel Barrymore met her in 1903, she exclaimed: "The Venus de Milo - with arms!" Maxine Elliott toured the U. S.. Australia, and England, won the favor of Britain's merry monarch Edward VII. A shrewd business woman who multiplied her earnings, she abruptly left the stage in 1920, eleven years after building Manhattan...
...Niobe sat and sulked by the edge of the pool because Dion had gone away into the mountains and would not return until Autumn. At first she had sobbed and threw herself on the ground and pulled out tufts of grass angrily. Then a beautiful blue butterfly had alighted on a thistle and she had watched it absorbed. For a moment a catapillar's struggle with an ant amused her. Bending over the pool, Niobe combed out her long black hair and admired her small tan shoulders. She had even twisted a garland of lacy white flowers which...
...even in the grass. From the mountains great waves of heat rolled and collided in the valleys, and the whole plain was shimmering hot and droway with the metallic whirr of crickets. Insensate she merged with the life all around her, and slept remembering her parents and the day Dion had come to take her away, and the dances around the coremonial fires and the eating and drinking. Endless dreamy days they had lived together by the side of the pool that mirrored the rising purple peaks and the changing sky. Three days ago a strange silent man had come...
...billed last week at a church in a down-at-heel section of Brooklyn as Lou Hill. "Former Hijacker, Gambler, Confidence Man," a Chicago hoodlum turned holy. High point of imaginative Lou Hill's career was strong-arming on a Chicago newspaper route with the late Dion O'Banion, who was later killed in his flower shop, supposedly by that former Brooklynite, Al Capone. In 1923, a fugitive from justice, Lou Hill staggered into a Springfield mission, heard a sermon which converted him. He says he returned to Chicago to give himself up but District Attorney Robert...
...Learned About Women" are two of two-hundred-and-eight movies which will be produced at the University Theater in the year beginning January ninth, nineteen-hundred-and-thirty-three. If one were, in a moment of fancy, to imagine Terence and O'Neil, Goethe and Shakespeare, Sophocles and Dion Boucicault, together with half-a-hundred other master playwrights, scribbling off the output of Hollywood consumed in one year by the University Theater, it would still be hard to believe that all of the production would be absolutely tip-top. The fallacy, by which the effete critics are snared...