Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heroine. She is a slender blonde Englishwoman who won fame last year in the stage musicomedy, Bitter Sweet. She sings and acts nicely, and though the whole production lacks distinction it is handsomely staged and cast and embellished with the folding leg and funny face of Comedian Leon Errol. Best shot: Errol posting a letter. Silliest shot: Laye and Boles singing lyrics to each other out of doors in the rain...
...college professors have few means of combating college trustees and corporations. They can only issue mild rebukes, disapproving resolutions. Last week the American Association of University Professors (membership 10,000) held its 17th annual meeting in Cleveland, discussed a plan first proposed last year by Psychology Professor Louis Leon Thurstone of University of Chicago. Plan is that the Association (or a committee representing a number of learned societies) should prepare a list of institutions satisfactory in scholastic standing, freedom of teaching, security in professorial position. Institutions could be blacklisted for unwarranted dismissal of teachers or interference with freedom of speech...
...General Manuel Orellana rushed with troops out of Fort Matamoras where he was commandant, booted out Acting President Palma, took the office himself. A half-hour's gun play left 57 persons killed or wounded. During the ruction somebody killed Gen eral Mauro de Leon, who as No. 1 Designate, should have succeeded ailing President Chacon but for the fact that he had recently accepted a cabinet post as Minister of War, was therefore ineligible under the Guatemalan Constitution. The U. S. State Department was in a tight place. After the revolution in Brazil (TIME...
...Leon Errol, son of a onetime Postmaster General of New South Wales who wanted his son to become a surgeon, has played drunks for 20 years throughout the U. S. and the British Empire, but he never drinks. He has been a clown, an animal trainer, an acrobat; he worked from burlesque into comic leads in Broadway shows. Most celebrated of his comic assets are his folding legs. When he was on the road with Louis the Fourteenth he had to stumble down a flight of stairs. One night one of the stairs was missing and he broke his legs...
...these authorities had much to do with it. Only Saps Work has been composed, acted and directed strictly "from the cuff" -the sort of picture in which cast, cameramen and executives on location go into a conference after each sequence to decide what to do next. It is Leon Errol's picture, and the best stretches are those in which, postponing as long as possible the moment for the next conference, he extemporizes while the cameras watch. He is perfectly cast as a kleptomaniac. When he needs a smoke, the man sitting next him in the Pullman smoking room...