Word: impostors
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...musical piece for the first time. Lillian Emerson, another legitimate actress, is teamed with Harry Richman, the only man on Broadway who can lisp without exciting suspicion. Bob Hope, the irrepressible juvenile of Roberta, displays a pretty wit. And as a freak draw the management has hired Impostor Harry Gerguson ("Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff"), who made a vaudeville appearance last year after a session in jail climaxed a series of transatlantic voyages in stowage. He impersonates himself as a high society gatecrasher...
...Socialist Norman Thomas said he would march with the Waldorf picketers, but he did not. Writer Fannie Hurst said she would be there too, but she was not. Only celebrities found in the scraggly, vociferous vortex which circled the Waldorf as the week closed were Inquisitor Samuel Seabury and Impostor Harry ("Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff") Gerguson. Mr. Seabury was going inside for dinner. Mr. Gerguson was bound he alone knew whither...
...refused to be baptized a Christian. All over Egypt pious Moslems cried out in fury. The Arab Press squirmed with headlines like a parade of Arabic sea serpents: poor children were lured into schools and clinics for conversion; missionaries made use of hypnotism: French Catholics called Mohammed an impostor and vilified his faith. Two of the biggest newspapers are owned by Christians, nevertheless dared not let themselves be completely outdone in anti-Christian fury. While the Press squirmed, a committee petitioned fat King Fuad to "save Moslems from the evil intent of the missionaries'' and in particular discontinue...
...opera singer, Enrico Ferraro (Kiepura) escapes his domineering female manager, goes off holidaying in a Swiss village. There, just as his identity is about to be revealed, he gets an obliging stranger whom he has met on the train to pose as Ferraro; then he pretends to be the impostor's secretary. This leads to the simpler forms of mountain comedy when the stranger, who turns out to be an eccentric crook, is called upon for a song; also when the stranger makes advances to the village belle (Magda Schneider) in whom the singer has taken an interest...
...indictment of Impostor Harry F.("Mike Romanoff") Gerguson for perjury and illegal entry into the U. S. (TIME, Jan. 2, 9, 23) : a sentence of 90 days in jail and three years on probation; in Manhattan Federal Court...