Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cadaverous young man who brings from London fame as an actor-director-manager (The Man in Possession, Topaze, Grand Hotel) simultaneously makes his U. S. and Shakespearean debut in the title role. Stout Colin Keith-Johnston (Journey's End) of the husky voice is Laertes. Friends of Leon Quartermaine who remember his eminently sympathetic treatment of "Uncle" in Journey's End, regretted that he had a part no larger than Horatio...
...Leon Janney, as Penrod, is a talented and charming boy, with an infectious laugh and a most engaging swagger. But his face is far too pretty for Penrod, who would have been more accurately represented by Junior Cohgian, the youngster who plays Sam. If ever Hollywood does a story of prep-school life, which is unlikely, Leon Janney would make a perfect lower-form boy attending Sunday evening Chapel in an Eton collar...
...America there have been no crusades. We have too little faith, and too much education for great journeyings into the cities of God. But De Soto died far down the Father of the Waters, Henrick Hudson set sail to find a North West Passage, and Ponce de Leon died in his search for a fountain of eternal youth. Something of this spirit drove men out west in the country's early years and sent them across the Panhandle into Texas, that they might fight for life in those far regions. Something of this spirit brings men out of Texas today...
...houses this year a dance will be held for the members of Kirkland House on Friday, November 27, the evening before the Dartmouth-Stanford game, in the large Kirkland House common room from 9 to 2 o'clock. The dance committee, headed by W. P. Taub '32, has engaged Leon Mayers and his Cape Codders to furnish the music, and is undertaking extensive plans for the decoration of the hall. Entertainment in the form of specialty acts and solos will take place at frequent intervals during the course of the evening, and supper will be served at 12 o'clock...
...authors was expensively expanded until it included such prize exhibits as Louis Bromfield (reputedly under contract for five books at $60,000 a book), Erich Maria Remarque, Anita Loos, Fannie Hurst, Ruth Suckow, Vicki Baum, Colette, Rex Beach, besides such old Hearst standbys as Peter B. Kyne. Harry Leon Wilson, the late James Oliver Curwood. By taking over Cosmopolitan's contracts, Farrar & Rinehart stepped overnight from second rank to very first. Publisher Farrar was pleased, and well he might be, to be at 36 head of such an affair. For while his favorite author may be Marlowe...