Word: lionell
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Cathedral of the Motion Picture Art," as Manhattan's $10,000,000 Roxy Theatre used to advertise itself, went into receivership last week. Claimed as chief reason for the theatre's present poverty was the fact that about a year ago Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel resigned to head Rockefeller Center's entertainment department. But cinamen know that spectacular Roxy's was unable to make satisfactory profits even when all its 6,000 seats were filled and when Roxy's 118-piece symphony orchestra was a feature...
...charge of the Poetry Room; G. G. Beste '30, 2L, of Gerlaw, Illinois; S. A. Buckingham '27, 3G, of Chevy Chase, Maryland; J. R. Collins '32, of Cincinnati, Ohio; Eustis Dearborn '32, of Sandwich; T. E. Farrell '31, 1L, of Oswege, New York; V. H. Harding, Jr. '31, Lionel de Jersey Fellow, of Hubbard Woods, Illinois; R. S. Harris '29, 1G.Ed., of Springfield; J. G. Haviland '29, 1L, of Glens Falls, New York; B. W. Hislop '31, 1L, of Troy, New York; Alan Holske '27, Instructor in German...
State's Attorney (RKO) shows John Barrymore himself making an address to a jury which is surely as impassioned as the one (in A Free Soul) which last year got his brother Lionel a prize from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. He is a criminal lawyer named Tom Corrigan, inclined to making cynical observations on the discrepancies between justice and the law. One evening he sees a girl (Helen Twelvetrees) brought into court on a vice charge. He defends her, makes her his mistress. Like Lawyer Day, Lawyer Corrigan is thick with thieves. A political gangster (William...
...Baron makes friends with a pretty stenographer (Joan Crawford). She is waiting to take dictation from a disagreeable textile tycoon (Wallace Beery). The tycoon, named Preysing, is so engrossed in dishonest tricks to escape financial ruin that he fails to recognize one of his own clerks. The clerk (Lionel Barrymore) is incurably ill; he has come to the hotel to finish his last days in one burst of unaccustomed luxury. Also to be observed are a sententious doctor (Lewis Stone) with a burned face, a hall-porter (Jean Hersholt) whose wife is having a baby. The conflicting aims of these...
...picture's greatest virtue, as it should be, is its acting. Garbo is less numb than usual and gives her best performance. John Barrymore makes the Baron a scapegrace so admirable as to be a larger blot upon the escutcheon of the Hays organization than six gangsters. Lionel Barrymore makes you believe that his collar is an inch too big for him. Good shot : the lobby of the Grand Hotel, looking down from a balcony on the sixth floor...