Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London society. Less a play than a gallery of portraits, it has the merit of showing its subjects in action: Lady Grayston (Constance Bennett), an heiress married to a penniless peer for his title, showing off with loud clothes and reconditioned epigrams; an aging duchess (Violet Kemble-Cooper), jealous of her gigolo (Gilbert Roland) who is making love to Lady Grayston; Thornton Clay (Grant Mitchell), a pee-wee snob trying to behave like a patrician; a U. S. Babbitt (Minor Watson) who gives Lady Grayston checks and stubbornly calls her "girlie"; two as yet undegenerate Americans, Lady Grayton...
...concert, at which brocaded Mrs. Conway was to have sung, which might have made Elsa some money to help her get away. That falls through when the pianist's romance with Mr. Conway comes out. Then there is a financially disastrous little concert which Elsa arranges herself. In jealous pique, Mrs. Conway has her removed from the faculty. Then neurotic Professor Vardaman (Luther Adler), who has tried Professor Stockton's psychological trick with the pistol, hysterically kills himself when he finds Elsa in Harry Conway's arms...
...Nationalist Government was bound last week that if Henry Pu Yi is to return to his old home in the spring, that home will be empty. They had still another reason for moving the treasure. Nanking, the ramshackle half-rebuilt new capital of China, has always been jealous of the solid magnificence that the Manchus gave Peiping. With the Forbidden City treasure to deck Nanking (there is as yet no fit place in Nanking to display it) the new city will have the dignity befitting a great capital...
Nell never retired formally from the stage, but after Charles took up with her she acted less & less. Though the King always had more than one mistress at a time Nell was apparently not jealous. She made the most of the princely presents he gave her: a house in Pall Mall, a generous allowance, two sons. The King found her good company and never stayed away for long. Her two principal rivals were Italian Hortense Mancini, French Louise de Quérouailles. With Louise, an aristocrat who constantly tried to come the great lady over her, Nell never...
Fanciers reluctantly admit that, though not so common as in former years, foul play is occasionally employed by ambitious or jealous dog exhibitors. Few years ago one tried to keep a rival from handling her dogs in the judging ring by sending a telegram falsely announcing her son's death...