Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jung & Wulff Co. In 1926 Mr. Jung died worth some $250.000 and was succeeded by Mr. Wulff as president. Swank Son Frederick August Wulff is treasurer, plays crack polo and is a captain in the 108th Cavalry of Louisiana's National Guard, but the firm's "Grand Old Absinthe Man" is James Bartholomew Higgins, 78, who has been in absinthe for 63 years...
...royal "floozy," Miss Dietrich changes her moods and mannerisms almost as frequently as willowy-necked Sam Jaffe (cast as Grand Duke Peter, her idiot husband) changes his mind. Worst shot: Marlene Dietrich clattering up the palace steps on a white horse...
...Everything in a first-rate DeMille picture is on a grand scale. He was the first director to realize that, since seeing is believing, anything is possible in the cinema. In the DeMillennium of the cinema industry before talkies, DeMille seldom made a picture that cost less than $1,000,000 or one that contained a cast of less than 10,000. By widening the dramatic scope of the cinema, talkies have made spectacles, as such, less satisfying. Youngsters who were in diapers when DeMille was at the peak of his power may sit spellbound before Cleopatra but oldsters...
Married? Ellen Emerson, great-grand-daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson; and Robert M. Delaney, 1932 Pulitzer Prize winner in musical composition ("John Brown's Body"); in Concord, Mass...
Major Steffen was a South African who came from Luxemburg. With a crate of pigeons strapped to him he bailed out from an airplane over Luxemburg one black night early in 1918. His mission was to discover whether the Germans were concentrating troops in the Grand Duchy for the great March offensive. He landed in a field, badly shaken. Groping in the dark he hid his parachute in a hedge, trudged 20 miles to his father's house, arriving just before dawn. Two of his three pigeons subsequently reached British G.H.Q. The message they bore was, in effect, no German...