Word: ian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lieutenant Colonel Ian Onslow Dennistoun, defendant...
...SHALLOW END-Major Ian Hay Beith-Houghton, Mifflin ($3.00). This book is dedicated to "the average British crowd"-God bless its sensible heart! Stimulated by the thought that "the shallow end is often much deeper than we think," the gallant Major considers, among other trivia: Midnight Revels (at home and abroad), Legal Cruelty (English courts), Universal Uncles (radiorators), A Rest Cure (English billiards), Graven Images (Madame Tussaud's famed waxworks), Royal and Antient (droll golf talk), The Springs of Laughter (Musical comedy). The vein employed is gentle satire of patent absurdities. Manners are mildly abused; the reader mildly amused...
...House of Commons, as Conservative member of North St. Pancras, London, is blind Captain Ian Frazer. His wife is his pilot and "parliamentary secretary"; but, according to the rules of the House, she cannot accompany him to those parts specifically reserved for members. Mr. Speaker Whitley came to the rescue. With great tact and courtesy, he issued last week to Mrs. Frazer a special permit enabling her to go anywhere, except on "the Floor of the House...
...which he did wonders, Wonders no more. We are sent home with disappointment and a happy ending. Miss Fenwick as Simonetta, charming and gracious though she be, is hopelessly miscast. She is too much the Anglo-Saxon, rather than Italian, nor does Raymend Bloomer, who takes the place of Ian Keith as Luigi, succeed altogether in convincing one of his powers as a cavalier...
Sued for divorce. Ian Keith, actor, by Blanche Yurka Keith, actress. She charged alienation of affections, named Marjorie Rambeau, famed actress, with whom Keith appeared in As You Like...