Word: earl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a British workman bothers to find out who is Minister of Labor he discovers handsome, rich and epigrammatic young Major Oliver Stanley, second son of the huge-paunched, sporting 17th Earl of Derby. Major Stanley's poised and gracious mother is Bedchamber Woman to Her Majesty the Queen. His beauteous wife is Maureen, eldest daughter of the Marquess and Marchioness of Londonderry, social backers and promoters of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. To a Laborite the mere fact that aristocratic Major Stanley, a successful ex-stockbroker, was made Minister of Labor last year brands National Government a sham...
...Seventh Annual Harvard Military and Naval Ball, featuring Earl Hines and his band, will be held at the Copley Plaza on March first. This occasion will mark the first appearance in Boston of the famous creole band from Chicago...
...Chan's 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...
Whipped by a 40 m. p. h. gale, an Ottawa blizzard lashed the state carriage of Canada's unpopular Governor General last week, as His Excellency Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough, rode out to open Parliament for the last time in his five year vice-Regal term. The next Governor General may just possibly be His Majesty's youngest son the Duke of Kent. Last week Lord Bessborough further miffed Canadians by insisting that his youngest son, aged 3, should see papa open Canada's Senate and House of Commons. As usual the vice-Regal...
...lightweight championship of Europe. At 15 Jessie Matthews left school to become a chorus girl in the London edition of Irving Berlin's Music Box Revue, has since appeared mostly in Charles B. Cochran productions. She visited the U.S. in the chorus of two Chariot Revues, appeared in Earl Carroll's Vanities, starred in Wake Up and Dream. Her present husband is John Robert Hale-Monro ("Sonnie Hale"). They were married in 1931 after Sonnie Hale was divorced by Actress Evelyn Laye and Jessie Matthews was divorced by her first husband, Actor Henry Lytton Jr., following her voluntary...