Word: lewes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbia), Mae Clarke was once a dancer at the Manhattan Everglades Club. A table for three in Manhattan's Tavern restaurant was reserved for them daily. Cinemactress Clarke left the Everglades after a short appearance in The Noose to act in vaudeville. She married and divorced Vaudevillian Lew Brice, went to Hollywood two years ago. She lives with & supports her family which had financial difficulties when her father, a motion picture theatre organist, lost his job at the advent of the talkies...
...Author. Robert Raynolds had reached the age of 28 without getting one of his stories published. Born in Santa Fe, N. Mex., in the room in the Governor's Palace where the late Author Lew Wallace is supposed to have worked on Ben Hur, he toiled in coal mines, a cement mill, a silver mine, on a trade magazine; but kept his literary ambitions. Though a graduate of Lafayette he spent two earlier years at Princeton, where the Nassau Literary Magazine encouraged him by accepting a sonnet, a sketch. A year ago he left his editorial job, took...
...Lew Hahn resigned from the presidency of Hahn Department Stores (27 in 26 cities), chose his protegé Paul Quattlander to succeed him. Founder Hahn will be board chairman, succeeding George W. Mitton who becomes chairman of the executive committee...
...affair with an American in Paris. This misdemeanor makes her very reluctant about marrying a painter, with whom she next becomes intimate. Further obstacles to the wedding are provided by the painter's sister, a severely conventional socialite. When the model's first lover (Lew Cody, grown a trifle fat) reappears, the situation requires the obvious solution of sixth reel matrimony. The outmoded quandaries of The Common Law (derived from a novel which Robert William Chambers wrote in 1913) cause Joel McCrea to look slightly disgruntled as the painter, provide nice surroundings but mediocre dramatic material for Constance...
...Rose (TIME, Dec. 1). It is a great deal sweeter and not so low as its predecessor. Supporting Miss Brice in the fun-making are Phil Baker and his accordion, Ted Healy and his grotesque ''stooges" (comic assistants). There are also: Fannie's nimble-footed brother Lew, the excellent ballroom dancers Gomez & Winona, a pretty little girl named Ethel Norris who sings and dances, good music by Harry Warren. For once, a Jewish production has acquired the smart, light touch...