Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Metropolitan picked John Seymour's opera for its next U. S. production and promptly renamed it In the Pasha's Garden. Gossip was that the Metropolitan judges, pessimistic about discovering a great U. S. opera, had stacked the best of the proffered scores and drawn lots. More likely, John Seymour's opera was chosen because it is brief, inexpensive to produce. It requires only one act for a pasha's wife to philander with a tenor, hide him in a chest which, thanks to a tattling eunuch, the husband orders to be buried...
...maintained an attitude of stubborn insistence upon its so-called "gold standard" which has long been purely theoretical, since no one can get gold for marks. "We reject absolutely a devaluation policy!" barked Dr. Schacht. "Reports in the foreign Press regarding inflation or devaluation of the mark are irresponsible gossip." Meanwhile Britain led and France swiftly followed in a move to seize from Germans within their borders sums sufficient to meet at least the moratoriumed interest payments due British and French holders of Dawes and Young bonds. Since Germany sells to Britain and France vastly more than she buys, these...
...picture ends with her release from jail, at 42. The man she loves, John Shadwell (John Boles) marries someone else, under the mistaken impression that Vergie has jilted him. Vergie gives birth to an illegitimate daughter named Joan. John and his rancid wife Laura (Helen Vinson) adopt Joan. Gossip about Vergie's protracted affair with John causes the ladies of Parkville to boycott Vergie's millinery store. Her landlord ups the rent and Vergie's radio breaks down...
...body in a rumble seat, enough has happened in this picture to suggest many a motive for murder. Arlene Bradford (Bette Davis) is a moody socialite, addicted to thievery for fun. Daughter of a banker (Arthur Byron) whom she dislikes, she consorts with underworldlings, gets her name in gossip columns, disposes of stolen bonds through her fiance and the Honolulu manager of her father's business. When Banker Bradford becomes suspicious and recalls his manager from Honolulu, there are altercations in a speakeasy and mysterious stirrings in the Bradford house. Arlene turns up dead in the garage. The newshawk...
...Fields the leading picture this week is "You're Telling Me." With only the suggestion of a plot the film supplies a background for the antics of Fields, pantomine actor extraordinary and wisecracking humorist. As Sam Bisbee, local inventor, he supplies the quiet little town of Crystal Springs with gossip galore and is a match for the town's society leader whose son falls in love with the "unmentionable" Bisbee's daughter. Jean Marsh plays the daughter and is charming in the role. Larry Crabbe as the son of the society dame is adequate but colorless. Though many...