Word: lionell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they have not. - Hilaire Belloc. Rudyard Kipling, shaggy-browed poet of British imperialism, who would never have written such a cynical (and honest) observation as Poet Belloc's, was 66 last fortnight. The Kipling Society had a banquet in London presided over by grey-haired Major General Lionel Charles Dunsterville, better known as the original Stalky. Poet Kipling did not attend. He stayed with his big, quiet, little-known wife, thinking. Days like the days of his youth seemed at hand. Last week a detachment of 400 officers and men from the Welch Regiment and the Royal Scots sailed...
...hours at his quarters, makes him blow out a holy candle burning under the ikon of a madonna. The aviator finally starts back for Russia, but his plane crashes. Miss Garbo, like all female spies in the cinema, sacrifices professional curiosity to I'amour. She kills a Russian general (Lionel Barrymore), but not until jealousy has made him give the information which leads to her painful but ennobled...
There is an irritating monotony of scene and absence of any dramatic tempo throughout the picture. Lewis Stone, one of our favorites, takes the part of the head of the German secret agents, yet he is never permitted to step beyond the portals of a drab office room. Lionel Barrymore, one of Hollywood's foremost character actors has little opportunity to do more than pluck nervously at his moustache...
...Died. Lionel Powell, famed impresario who introduced Paderewski, Caruso. Chaliapin, Tetrazzini, Kreisler, Jeritza et al. to London, visited the U. S. 40 times during the course of his career; after an operation...
...Metropolitan so hard hit financially that it could not even finish the present season, its directors so dissatisfied with the conservative, practical policies of Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza that they were just waiting for the expiration of his contract (April 1935) to appoint some such character as Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel to take his job. That meant surely a company reorganized and moved to Radio City...