Word: leos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cowboy and the Lady (United Artists-Samuel Goldwyn) was written by Leo McCary, Frank R. Adams, Frederick Lonsdale, Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell, Howard Estabrook, Robert Ardrey, Eddie Moran. John Emerson, Anita Loos, Frank Ryan, Gene Fowler, Robert Riskin, Richard Connell, Sonya Levien, and S. N. Behrman-in relays as their predecessors fell by the wayside...
...Warner Bros.), like The Cowboy and the Lady, deals with romance between a poor but honest young working man (Dick Powell) and an opinionated but lovely young heiress (Olivia de Havilland) with a crotchety father (Charles Winninger). Product of the Hollywood minimum of five writers (Jerry Wald. Maurice Leo, Richard Macauley, Wally Klein, Joseph Schrank), it shows a few deviations from pattern which give it an unexpected and agreeable individuality. Sample: when the heiress (as in The Cowboy and the Lady) adopts the invariable ruse of impersonating her own maid, her father, instead of objecting, happily arranges...
From Antwerp last week arrived pictures of Leo Frenssen, a surprise victor in Belgium's recent municipal elections; bounding over the cane (see cut) by means of which he proved to Antwerp voters that at 58 he is still a man of no mean physical prowess. Councilman Frenssen was considered a harmless crank, hipped on the passe tenets of U. S. technocracy, until he and his "Technocrat Party" won 21,000 votes, enough to entitle them to six seats in the Antwerp municipal council. Since new councilmen will not take their seats until after January 1, perplexed Antwerp...
Over a period of nearly 20 years the Antwerp Bell Telephone Co. alternately hired & fired Leo Frenssen, an able telephonic technician but about as dependable as the late Count Leo Tolstoi, whom he mystically resembles. Once Leo Frenssen was an enrolled member of the Belgian Communist Party. He resigned with the declaration: "I am convinced that Communism is now the wrong theory-I am for peace, and I believe that every conflict can be settled peaceably if some imagination is used...
...Leo W. Mather '37 has completed the Naval Aviation Course at Pensecola, it was learned last night...