Word: gibsonized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Strange Case of Clara Dean (Paramount), Wynne Gibson (daughter...
...steel magnate who decides on his deathbed to dispense his fortune in million dollar lots to names in the city directory, acts consistently well throughout the production. Charles Laughton gives the best, but unfortunately shortest, performance; Charlie Ruggles makes a very amusing clerk in a chinaware store; Wynne Gibson overacts as the prostitute; Alison Skipworth and W. C. Fields provide much needed comic relief; and May Robson, in one of her first appearances on the screen, gives one of the best pieces of acting in the picture. Individually, the shots are generally well-directed and effective, but as a whole...
...departure from the usual George White tradition that it must be regarded as a bold attempt at pioneering. If Mr. White is lucky, his show will be the leader of a new trend, a trend back to musicality and romance, a swing of the pendulum back to the Gibson girl...
Died. Mary Joan Gibson, 12-day-old child of Sidney Herbert Homewood, the Tappan (N. Y.) ridingmaster jailed last month for seducing Socialite Charlotte Ariel Gibson (TIME, Dec. 19) ; of bleeding at the navel; in Tappan...
Schuyler Merritt, longtime Republican Congressman from Connecticut's 4th District, resigned as boardchairman of Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co. (locks). He was succeeded by President Walter C. Allen. Vice President & Treasurer William Gibson Carey Jr., 36, stepped up to the presidency. A onetime district manager for Container Corp. of America, smart young Lockman Carey is son-in-law of John Henry Towne, son of the founder...