Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many will remember "Sally" as a musical comedy of about ten years ago and in which Marilyn Miller and Leon Errol were the stars. The current "singing, dancing and talking" First National picture at the Uptown (which by the way, bids fair to become a leading first-run house in Boston) is based on the old play by Guy Bolton and Jerome Kern, the collaborators on many successful musical shows including Fred Stone's latest...
...Vilna the Capital of Lithuania - which it is according to the Lithuanian Constitution; or is it a Polish city - which it is according to the Polish warriors who have held it since 1919?* After putting this agenda in the capable hands of underlings - lesser statesmen such as Quinones de Leon of Spain - for the customary debate, the Quick Lunchers prepared to entrain for the London Conference (see col. 2). Cor respondents facing a dire dearth of news cornered Mr. Henderson and chorused, "Come on, tell us how you came to be called 'Uncle Arthur!" "Certainly, gentlemen," said...
Riffling through the B's, correspondents discovered that a most interesting bastard's daughter claimed to be a direct descendant of the late great Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French.* She lives in a small villa outside Paris. Called "Mme. Mesnard Leon," she is a retired schoolteacher. On her own admission and by the authority of Dr. Hoefflinger, Mme. Leon is the daughter of Count de Leon who was the illegitimate son of Napoleon and one Elenore de la Plaigne, a complaisant lady of the Imperial Court...
...news of my father's birth was received by Napoleon at Pultusk, Poland, when he was preparing the campaign that culminated in the victory of Friedland," said Mme. Leon last week. "Napoleon was already thinking of divorcing the childless Empress Josephine, so you can imagine what consequences the news of my father's birth might have had. But what could Napoleon do? Nothing! Marriage with my grandmother was out of the question. . . . He could only give the child the last syllables of his own name, calling him Count Leon...
...Statistics appearing in The Builders of America by Ellsworth Huntington, Yale social scientist, and Leon F. Whitney, eugenist, show that for every 20 clergymen one clergyman's son is listed in Who's Who, whereas the proportion for other professions is 46 to 1; for skilled labor 1,600 to 1; for unskilled labor 48,000 to 1 (figures based on 1922-23 edition of Who's Who). Famed sons of clergymen: Henry Van Dyke, William Lyon Phelps, Robert Maynard Hutchins, Otis Skinner, John Grier Hibbeii, Irving Fisher, Charles Evans Hughes...