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Died. Henry Ainley, 66, London matinee idol of the early 1900s, considered one of England's handsomest men, ardent Shakespearean who acted in popular plays "to permit the luxury of losing on Shakespeare"; after long illness; in London...
Already Spruille Braden was better known to the Latins than any other U.S. figure, Franklin D. Roosevelt perhaps excepted. In five months of Hemispheric fame, twelve years of quieter labors, he had made himself an idol to many, anathema to many others. Nor were all who distrusted or feared him dictators and authoritarians. Many a Latin democrat (perhaps more Latin than democratic) was numbered among his loud detractors...
Prayers & Tears. Aurore's dead father was the idol of Grandmother Dupin's house. Once, in the dead of night, Aurore was wakened by her tutor and led to the family burial plot. "Do you believe," the tutor asked the shivering girl, "that the dead deserve more from us than prayers and tears?" Then he bent over the newly opened plot, detached Captain Dupin's skull from the rotting skeleton and held it out to Aurore, saying: "Kiss this relic that was your father." Aurore obeyed...
Enrico Caruso, probably the most popular singer of all time, lived a life as tempestuous, verbena-scented and romantic as any Verdi libretto. He was already a mature (45) and wealthy idol (and the father of two illegitimate sons) when he met convent-reared Dorothy Park Benjamin, courted her under the disapproving eye of her blue-blooded U.S. father, married her and made her one of America's most toasted women. With operatic fervor, he plunged into his new role: the impassioned husband and father...
Errol Flynn surprises by doing his best to forget he's a matinee idol, and pretty nearly carries it off. Henry Hull is excellent as a rather improbable superannuated newspaperman who gets himself taken along on the theory that someone is needed to relate the action to the philosophy of global war. For the fans, the Flatbush soldier is here, too, played by George Tobias...