Word: earl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Biggest landowner is the Duke of Richmond who owns more than a quarter million acres (23 times the acreage of Bermuda). His Grace Charles Henry Gordon- Lennox, 8th Duke of Richmond (creation in 1675), Earl of March and Due d'Au-bigny (French creation in 1683-84), is a Colonel in the Sussex Yeomanry and the author of A Duke and His Friends. Hi: principal addresses: Goodwood, Chichester; Molecomb, Chichester; Gordon Castle, Fochabers, Banffshire; and Glenfiddich Lodge, Dufftown, Scotland...
...most of the qualities which are noticeable in adaptations of stage comedies. Its unusual charm springs partly from Lonsdale's gracious dialog and partly from the fact that the cast is about the best that Hollywood could assemble for this type of production. Reginald Owen is a sporting Earl, absurdly preoccupied with the nonsensical problems of barnyard and hunting field. Frederick Kerr is a superannuated British admiral, grunting pungent insults at the members of his family. Roland Young is a self-satisfied naval officer who has a fussy curiosity about the domestic affairs of his friends. It is characters...
Face the Music slows up toward the end by the sheer weight of its extravagance in a courtroom scene in the Earl Carroll manner, but it would be a churlish critic indeed who would not admit that it is the most impressive musical show in town and one of the two funniest...
Business & Pleasure (Fox). Though he is head of a large company and hard beset by industrial difficulties, the Earl Tinker who is the hero of this picture must not be confused with the Edward Tinker who is president of Fox Film Corp. It would be libelous to suggest that Edward Tinker has mobile lips, like a mule's, a wiggling weather-beaten nose, and so little knowledge of how to behave that he would annoy his fellow passengers on a transatlantic liner by hooting low ballads in the ship's bar and chuckling at their...
...Institute's leaders have been men whose names are famed to sugar. Earl D. Babst of American Sugar Refining Co., great & good friend of Herbert Hoover. was its first president. Rudolph Spreckels served one term, James Howell Post of National Sugar Refining is now president. Often called Brooklyn's first citizen, Mr. Post is a smallish man, stooped, white-haired, interested in missionary, charity work. Representative of the late Henry O. Havemeyer, head of the sugar trust which was dissolved in 1922, he has been National's president since 1900. Under such men the Institute has accomplished its purpose. Marketing...