Word: leah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Carlyle Blackwell, 49, old-time film actor; from Leah ("Queen of Diamonds") Barnato Blackwell, daughter of the late Diamond Tycoon Barney Barnato; in Reno. Six hours later he married Avonne Taylor, onetime Ziegfeld beauty, divorced wife of Thomas F. Manville...
...Author- In 1883, into an atmosphere reeking with literary and dramatic talent, Edward Montague Compton (Mackenzie is his ancestors' clan name) was born. His father was an able actor; his aunt was "Leah" Bateman, famed Lady Macbeth; his actress sister Fay Compton still holds the boards. After Oxford he took to writing plays, finally to novel-writing. He fought in the War, was invalided out as a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and O. B. E. After the War he leased from King George one of the Channel Islands, Jethou, stocked it with 10,000 books...
...recover specifically $2,782,825 from Founder Fox, and by compelling Founder Fox to open his private books hopes eventually to obtain $5,000,000. Prominent among the "divers acts" cited was forcing brokers to hand over a $441,000 share of an underwriting fee to his daughter Caroline Leah Taussig. Immediately upon filing the suit, Fox Theatres went into receivership...
...wandering circus boy. When she finds herself pregnant she marries a farmer, Elmer Croy, who loves her too much to mind premarital infidelity. Pierre travels on with his mother, gets a big-time job with Haines's Roman Circus as chariot rider, gladiator. In this capacity he fascinates Leah, a waning mistress of wealthy benefactors long deceased. Pierre and she take up together in Chicago. She holds him with her comfortable, wise charms, and with the money she can lend. At the sight of the world of wealth, Pierre's banker's blood begins to simmer. With...
...given in the courtroom of Landgell Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecturer will be J. H. Lewin, LL.B. at Harvard University in 1923, and the people's counsel for the Maryland Public Service Commission, who has chosen as his subject, "Seven Year's Service for Leah...