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Word: erine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spilling water on the table cloth. Philip Eden (Richard Dix), hero of His Greatest Gamble, is, he says, a "half-mad cavalier who lights his cigaret on the stars and throws the stars away." By way of corroboration. he kidnaps his 10-year-old daughter from his estranged wife (Erin O'Brien-Moore); whisks her along the coast of France on a 30-day inspection of gambling casinos; ties a discarded mistress in an armchair where she suffocates; goes to jail for murder; escapes after 13 years to rescue his daughter who has been convinced by her mother that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 30, 1934 | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

Richard Dix makes the whimsy talk in His Greatest Gamble seem less offensive than it really is. Making her cinema debut, Erin O'Brien-Moore may well be successful in Hollywood when subjected to the attentions of skilled makeup artists and costumers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 30, 1934 | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

...Annette Erin O'Brien-Moore was born in Los Angeles in 1906, studied at St. Joseph's Convent in Tucson, planned to be a sculptor. At 15, she made her first appearance on the Manhattan stage. That she has not appeared in cinema before is partly due to the fact that in 1929 she was selected to play the young daughter in Street Scene. After 800 performances in Manhattan and London, she met Sam Goldwyn to discuss playing in the cinema version. They became so interested in how the picture should be made that they forgot to sign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 30, 1934 | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

Donn Byrne died in 1928 but Maurice Walsh carries on in Donn Byrne manner. Author Walsh writes of Ireland, but not the Ireland of Yeats, Synge or Joyce. His Erin is a Ruritania set to music, a light operetta in which broken hearts, murder, the open road, gentlemen disguised as tinkers, and a couple of good rough-&-tumbles lead inevitably to the old sweet finale. The Road to Nowhere's pages are damp with manly sentiment and the hero ("a man amongst men, simple men, kindly men, men who could be terrible, men who used strong language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Aestive Pretties | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

Miss McCormic, handsomely gowned, as the boys say, has an attractive voice which she uses without particular strain to encompass songs like "My Hero" and this being Boston, "Come Back to Erin," and "Macushla...

Author: By E. W. R., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

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