Word: lancers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond is uneasy. He would like to throw back the covers and cool off, but he doesn't quite dare with such an inquisitive visitor making the rounds of his belongings. The winged lancer squares off on the desk calendar and snorts contemptuously at a picture of the Vagabond's best girl. Bored, he revs up his motor and decides to leaves. He mistakes the mirror for a window and is quite some shaken up by the minor crackup which ensues. Then, having been aroused, he changes instantly from a disturbance into a menace. He runs out his stinger...
...George Sanders. Russian-born of British parents, Sanders made a great stir in his first Hollywood role, as the foppish Lord Stacy in Lloyd's of London. Immediately earmarked for stardom by Producer Darryl Zanuck, he has been undergoing a melodramatic course of sprouts (Slave Ship, Lancer Spy). International Settlement makes it clear that, even in the presence of seasoned troupers like prettily prognathous Dolores Del Rio, the sound stage is his whenever he walks...
...weeks ago the new quarterly You thought it had reached the acme of daring female magazine journalism when it told what to do for "Your Bosom" (TIME, Nov. 15). But last week Free Lancer Maxine Davis wrote in Pictorial Review a story on the prostate gland which made You's frankness read like Sunday-school talk. A year ago Hearst's Pictorial Review decided, after a survey, that its 25-year-old typical reader wants open discussion of problems not usually found in ladies' journals, embarked Maxine Davis on a series covering abortions, syphilis, menopause, degenerative diseases...
Hastily Editor Daigh selected Free-lancer Frederic Mortimer Delano (fourth cousin to the President), 40, to help shape up Photo-Facts. A metropolitan "feeler number" in August was so successful Publisher Fawcett put on newsstands this week 175,000 copies of the first regular Photo-Facts issue, a modest figure in contrast to Fawcett's bestseller, True Confessions, which has reached 1,100,000 a month...
...vessel. Brought to Philadelphia for trial, Holmes was convicted of manslaughter with a recommendation for mercy, served six months in prison before going back to the sea. Seaman Holmes's story, radically transformed by the crack team of Scenarist Grover Jones & Director Henry Hathaway (Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine) and magnificently photographed by Academy Award Winner Charles Lang (A Farewell to Arms), makes a notable adventure picture...