Word: idol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years as Minister to Austria. There he was so little able to conceal his dislike of Hitlerism that Nazis made threats to blow up the U. S. legation. A dictatorship of the proletariat is equally abhorrent to him and his sympathies were with the late Chancellor Dollfuss, an idol of his even when Dollfuss spilled buckets of blood in putting down the Socialist revolution in Austria. His enemies may question how well balanced George Earle's convictions are, but as a man with strong will to peace and to a fair deal for Labor he was destined to have...
Hitch Your Wagon's first scene exhibits Rex Duncan (George Curzon), a onetime stage idol who has gone somewhat to pot in Hollywood, having the jitters in a Manhattan sanatorium where his agent (Joseph Sweeney) has placed him because of alcoholic excesses. A shapely young admirer comes in bringing a gift of noodle soup. She turns out to be one Camille Schwartz (Dennie Moore), encouraged to visit Duncan by a stage-struck mother. The actor is charmed by Camille's naive allusions to her simple, bourgeois life, even more fascinated when she deprecates his film appearances but admires...
...Gods (London Film) is based on the triangle of a matinee idol (Sebastian Shaw), his actress wife (Gertrude Lawrence) and a spinster secretary (Miriam Hopkins). When the secretary breaks off her affair with him because his wife is about to have a child, he resolves on that stage-worn device-actually killing his wife when as Othello he is smother ing her as Desdemona. This time, how ever, Desdemona lives to reconquer her Othello...
Neither as King Edward, nor later last week as Prince Edward, did the eldest son of the Royal House enter London. This idol of the British masses (for such His Majesty unquestionably was) vanished, and after a little space other idols (for such King George VI, Queen Elizabeth and crown princess Elizabeth will soon be) were substituted. The basic English truth which emerged is that the Kingdom long ago became and is today neither a democracy nor a monarchy but an efficient oligarchy, more or less benevolent. Its symbol is the Crown, but the really effective British crowns...
Francis Lederer, romantic matinee idol of women from Radcliffe to Paris, Manhattan to Vienna, has not always been such. Once a floor-washer in Prague for $1.20 a week, he, today, has a tremendous interest in promoting world peace and preventing wars. To advance the idea, he has founded, and is supporting, a World Peace Federation...