Word: idol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press for criticizing the House's action in haltering Mr. Roosevelt. He asked what difference there was between Prime Minister Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler, between "democracies" and "dictatorships," when ever since Munich they could all be seen serving their own selfish interests. "It is not surprising," rumbled the idol of Idaho, "that the majority of the House did not make any distinction between dictators and democracies but pursued the old system of considering alone the interests of the people of the United States...
During her ensuing reign as amateur queen of the ice, Sonja Henie won the world's championship ten times running, an unequaled record. She also won the seven European championships she entered, and she won the last three Olympic Games of her amateur era. She became a national idol such as Norway had not worshipped since Ibsen. Above the iron bedstead in her chamber in her small Oslo apartment hung autographed pictures of Hitler and Mussolini. England's Queen Mary and King Edward VIII were her devoted fans. Norway's moosey King Haakon took to telegraphing...
...Time for Comedy. Old Idol Katharine Cornell and New Idol Laurence Olivier (see p. 57) in a talky but amusing comedy (TIME...
...Deer slayer (1841), Tom Brown's School Days (1857) and Alfred Batson's contemporary African Intrigue, dealing with the Agadir incident of 1911. Producer Towne will stress his stories rather than his stars, hopes for big names but will insist on actors to suit his roles. His idol at the moment is George Bernard Shaw, who, after refusing for years to let the cinema tinker with his plays, got Pygmalion made straight into a smash hit. Says Gene Towne: "It took an old guy with a beard to make bums...
Handsome Spangler Arlington Brugh, 27, got into the movies when a scout saw him in Journey's End at Pomona College, which graduated him in 1933. A matinee idol and shopgirls' delight from the beginning, he got off on the wrong foot when critics dubbed him "Beautiful" Robert Taylor. To counteract this tendency, his studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, put him in one two-fisted role after another, swaddled him in he-man publicity. One day last week, Spangler Arlington Brugh took matters into his own hands...