Word: impostors
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...deaf-mutes who attended the convention of the 57-year-old organization last week danced to the music of a five-piece band, which they felt through their feet. They learned that the only "impostor" (a person of sound hearing who poses as deaf to cadge charitable upkeep) to appear during the past three years, one Charles Burton of Altoona. Pa., had been punished by law, then killed by a motorcar. They pointed with pride to the deaf-mutes who make high mark in the world today-Sculptor Elmer A. Hannon, Poet Howard Leslie Terry, blind Pianist Helen May Martin...
...Russian prince, Alexis Panaieff, requests the honor of being presented to her, Laura Ridgeway (Loretta Young) is delighted. She recognizes the prince (Tyrone Power) as a young American whom she has encountered once before, and when his preposterous Russian accent makes it doubly clear that he is an impostor, she decides definitely to marry him. What Laura does not know is that marrying her is Prince Alexis' job, assigned to him by the rascally proprietor to whom he has given an elastic check; and that he finds the job distasteful because, being in love with her, he dislikes...
Rich and stupid Lala Palooza set out vigorously to please all lovers of oldtime funnypaper slapstick. She started her comic career by consulting Professor Zeero, a turbaned faker, who advised her to marry an impostor named Senor Gonzales. When Lala Palooza's lazy brother, Vincent Doolittle, opposed the match he was thrown through a door by Hives, his sister's supercilious chauffeur. Thrilled to her deep core, Lala Palooza accepted Gonzales and this week, in the course of reducing to please him, she blacks both Professor Zeero's eyes with a dumbbell, drops heavy weights on Brother...
...door significantly implied that the Fellows of Eton need not admit the King's nominee unless they wanted to. The Fellows, though, had decided that they wanted Lord Hugh, admitted him. Crossing School Yard to Upper Chapel he produced his royal warrant to prove he was no impostor, listened to addresses in Latin by Headmaster Elliott and the captain of the school. Lord Hugh, as was fitting, replied in Latin, but probably not 50 of the 1,100 aristocratic youths present knew what he was talking about. For many of them their knowledge of Latin begins and ends with...
...mean business. Then there are those awful namby-pamby European counts, who are always such a trial to people like movie heiresses and Jiggs' daughter. Actually, if one ever showed up, he would be quite refreshing because of the rarity. Finally, Bette turns out to be an impostor. All this conduces to the happiness of the people in the show, but scarcely to that of the people watching it, who become so bored they forget to be surprised...