Word: hurst
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back Street (Universal). Fannie Hurst's tender and moving biography of a kept woman is here reproduced in a sincere, detailed picture. Irene Dunne is the big-hearted daughter of a German notion-store keeper in Cincinnati. She falls in love with John Boles, a pedigreed young banker, who by a series of misunderstandings, makes her his mistress instead of his wife. Though Boles is selfish and niggardly, she rejects an old sweetheart who offers her position and wealth. The young banker becomes a big banker, supported by his mistress' advice. Going to Europe on a Reparations commission, he takes...
...congratulations came in from President Hoover, Secretary of the Interior Wilbur, many a university president. Among famed alumni of Washington University are Taftian Secretary of Commerce & Labor Charles Nagel. Coolidgian Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis, Senators Roscoe Conklin Patterson and Harry Bartow Hawes, Publisher Conde Nast, Authoress Fannie Hurst, Missouri's present Governor Henry Stewart Caulfield. Washington has the West's richest university art collection (over...
...self-respecting Dominion thinks of doing away with the oath!" shouted Sir Gerald Hurst, again taking up the cudgels. "The oath is simply a recognition of the common duty of citizenship. It is simply a symbol of recognition of the big things of national life...
...That such a bill should even be discussed in the Commons," stormed Sir Gerald Hurst, Conservative M. P., "is a disgrace and a disaster...
...temperature rose to 78° in Washington one day last week. The air-conditioning machine was turned on at the White House. ¶Thirty-five newspaper editors spent two hours talking things over with the President in the Lincoln Study. ¶New York's Senator Wagner took Fannie Hurst, writer, to the White House to meet the President. Thirty minutes later Cinemactress Dorothy Mackaill arrived for the same purpose without a political escort. The President saw her, too. ¶President Hoover declared again for better homes. Endorsing "Better Homes Week" (April 24-May 1) he said he wanted...