Word: doves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Their vessel had rammed 504,000 gal. of hightest gasoline, cargo of the Pinthis, owned by Lake Tankers Corp. (Mallory Lines subsidiary). For a roaring moment the two craft locked, then the Pinthis sank with her crew of 18. The Fairfax was doused in flame. Human torches rushed about, dove vainly for relief into the blazing sea. Down came the lifeboats, their ropes burned away; down came the radio antenna, before an SOS was sounded. On the top deck Mrs. Neil A. Dayton, Wartime Red Cross nurse in the Army service, wife of the director of Massachusetts' Department...
...production. No detail was considered too minute for meticulous attention. Hughes himself is a licensed pilot able to perform almost every stunt for which he paid his flyers. He drives a motor car fast but keeps paint on his mudguards. He is fond of golf and Cinemactress Billie Dove, who recently acquired a nickel-plated Rolls-Royce...
...Notorious Affair (First National). Billie Dove's figure and the clipped accent and expressive eyebrows of Basil Rathbone are the only acceptable components of this cinema. It is an awkward, slow account of the love-affair of an English society woman and a poor musician. People who saw Adolph Menjou in Fashions for Love will understand whence comes the idea for A Notorious Affair, but not how the wit and sophistication that distinguished the Menjou show were eliminated from this imitation. Silliest shot: women swarming about the musician's carriage when he drives up to Albert Hall...
WHEN I'M LOOKING AT You and THE WHITE DOVE (Victor, $1.50)-Baritone Lawrence Tibbett sings these just as he does in the cinema Rogue Song. Popular also will be his records of Rogue Song and The Narrative...
...Gosden, 31, native of Richmond, Va. He is a tall, erect blonde with tight, wavy hair, a broad brow and wide-set eyes. He was raised with a Negro "mammy" and a Negro playmate from whom he gained much of his extraordinary knowledge of racial peculiarities. Aged 10, he dove into Annette Kellerman's tank. Aged 12, he held eggs for the magician Thurston. For a year he went to military school in Atlanta. During the War he served in the Navy, then became a traveling tobacco salesman. Returning to Richmond he did a clog dance in a home...