Word: idolizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concealed in a golf club, with a trigger released by impact with the ball, killed jolly old Professor Barstow and why. By the time he succeeds, the picture has unraveled the grim and interwoven biographies of an irascible golf professional, an Argentine olive oil dealer, a lady idol worshipper and a young man with an Oedipus complex. It has also indicated that its hero, less dashing than Philo Vance and less whimsical than Charlie Chan, but more mercenary than either, will be a highly acceptable addition to the screen's growing corps of private operatives. Good sequence: Wolfe, confronted...
...Terry. A product of Westminster, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and several years of British stock, he made his reputation in successive appearances as Romeo, Hamlet and King Lear at London's Old Vic Theatre, branched out as a successful actor- manager in 1934. The most popular matinee idol England has seen in years, he experimented with the screen in Secret Agent because he admired Director Hitchcock, wanted to learn his methods at first hand. After each day's shooting at Gaumont's suburban studio, he scurried back to London to appear on the stage as Romeo...
...They may make mistakes, but they're a big people." Smuts straightway buried the hatchet, tried to get his brother-Boers to do likewise. When he took office under Botha, who became Prime Minister, both were accused by diehard Boers of being turncoats. Botha was the popular idol but Smuts was the brains of the administration. Discontented criticism centred...
Because his undergraduate idol, "Copey" (Professor Charles Townsend Copeland) told him he must "see life" if he wanted to write. Reed made his first trip to Europe on a cattle-boat, then discovered that Paris was the greatest place in the world. Back in Manhattan, Lincoln Steffens got him a job on the American Magazine. Soon it began to look like Harvard all over again. He was taken into the Dutch Treat Club, was spoken of as a coming man by many a highly-paid hack. He was taken in by Mabel Dodge, whose Fifth Avenue salon was then running...
...Fair, where the master is offering the muscles of the mighty Sandow. Even at this early stage in his development "Ziggie" realizes that his main theme is a rhapsody on the theatrical potentialities of the female form. He brings Anna Held to America and makes her a national idol by immersing her daily (in private) in milk baths. He then marries the beautiful Anna (magnificently played by Luise Rainer) and moves ahead with the production of more pageania in the grand manner. For three glittering hours the screen is alive with Ziegfeld, his personal life and his productions. At least...