Word: honours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dancers (Fox). When Phillips Holmes finds his boyhood sweetheart (Lois Moran) teaching school in a small French town, she confesses to him that she has not lived up to the inscription she once wrote on her photograph: "I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honour more." Holmes, however, has been true to her. A fair thematic idea knits up this otherwise silly and incoherent picture. All is based on an old story of Sir Gerald Du Maurier. All is distinctly British in tone and notable only for the first appearance in talking pictures of Mrs. Patrick...
...Treasury. Asked to succeed the late great George Meredith as president of the Society of Authors, he wrote : "I must . . . perform the disagree able duty of acting upon my own conviction of what is for the Society's good, and tell you that I feel compelled to decline the honour." A few weeks later he accepted...