Word: dublin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pictures, established himself as one of the three or four actors of his generation capable of carrying a production. He was born in 1888 in Cincinnati where his father was head of the Western Union relay office. After studying at St. Xavier College and the University of Dublin, Walter Connolly made his professional début in 1909. Just after the War, he married Actress Nedda Harrigan. Fond of horse races, Walter Connolly wanted to be a jockey until he found it interfered with his diet. He weighs 190 lb. stands 5 ft. 9 in. Hollywood has not changed his habit...
...Epsom Derby, as everyone knows, is much more than a horse-race attracting the biggest crowd of the year. It is also a means of deciding one of the three huge lotteries of a Dublin Committee for the benefit of all the hospitals in Ireland. For this year's Derby the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes took in $14,373.000, of which it was ready to pay out $9,137.000 in prize money. Few days before the race, the committee with elaborate ceremonies picks ticket-holders for each horse in the race. The value of each ticket varies with...
...Green" played by bagpipes; or 2) Marion Davies saying "acushla." The Key is, therefore, an Irish experiment. Adapted from the London play by R. Gore Brown and J. L. Hardy, with an imported cast including J. M. Kerrigan, once of the Abbey Players, it tries hard to use the Dublin riots of 1920 as authentic background for a semi-serious melodrama...
Captain Andrew Kerr (Colin Clive) is a British officer stationed at Dublin. His friend Captain Tennant (William Powell), who has had an affair with Mrs. Kerr (Edna Best) before her marriage, attempts to revive it when they meet again. Captain Kerr finds out about this the evening he gets back from capturing Sinn Fein Leader Pedar Conlan. Dejected, he stumps out of his house and into a Sinn Fein ambush which enables Tennant to make a handsome gesture. He forges an order for the release of Conlan, obtains the release of Captain Kerr in exchange, lights a cigaret...
...obvious fault in The Key as occasional drama is that the incidents which it relates could have occurred just as well in Nicaragua or Cincinnati. Nonetheless, Dublin decorations do not damage a good melodrama. The Key is well constructed and acted with proper enthusiasm. Under Director Michael Curtiz, who took pains to get all the possible wear out of his sets, Edna Best does a commendable job in her first important cinema role. Good shot: a genial Irish bartender advising Captain Kerr to leave by the back door where he knows an ambush is in wait...