Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry Cabot Lodge, able journalist (New York Herald Tribune}, setting out after his Senator-grandfather's footsteps, announced his candidacy for State Representative in Massachusetts...
...Author. An English Jewess, Gladys Bronwyn Stern Holdsworth was born in London in 1890, seven years later wrote a play mostly because the billiard room in her home made a good stage. She studied drama, soon decided on a literary career. In 1919 Geoffrey Lisle Holdsworth, English journalist, lying wounded in a hospital, read her Twos and Threes, objected so strongly to its hero that he wrote her a bitter complaint. Replying in her defense Authoress Stern asked him to come and see her; three months later they married. Now she lives in a lofty villa at Diano Marina, Italy...
Authentic? When a premier "explodes." speaking his real mind incautiously to a journalist, his henchmen have to tidy up. Thus, after the late, great Premier Nikola Pashitch of Jugoslavia "exploded" to Correspondent Dorothy Thompson (now Mrs. Sinclair Lewis) it was denied not only that he had spoken as quoted but that he had ever seen her in his life. Last week the Italian Foreign Office called II Duce's statements as quoted by the Daily Express "so obviously absurd as to be unworthy of an official denial...
Love is a Racket (First National) shows Douglas Fairbanks Jr., a likable young journalist, attempting to make friends with a young actress (Frances Dee). When, during a penthouse entertainment, a racketeer insults the actress, her aunt immediately kills him. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. shows how quick-witted he is by throwing the racketeer's corpse off the roof. When police find it on the sidewalk, they do not guess about the murder. He is rewarded not by the actress's devotion but by a mean trick such as real colyumists have given the public to understand is particularly likely...
...Merrily We Go to Hell, the fact that the hero is a journalist is incidental to the plot. The picture, adapted from Cleo Lucas' novel I, Jerry, Take Thee, Joan, is a study of domestic relations rather than of an occupation. As such it is by no means novel but it is well plotted, brilliantly acted. Sylvia Sidney has an extraordinary way of making audiences believe that she is ecstatically happy. She does it with a thoughtful, crooked smile and a small chuckle. Her pleasant state of mind is credible in this picture even when March, who has lost...