Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jayhawker (by Sinclair Lewis & Lloyd Lewis; Henry Hammond. Inc., producer). Mr. Lloyd Lewis, the historian (Myths after Lincoln; Sherman, Fighting Prophet) and Mr. Sinclair Lewis, as resourceful a story-teller as the nation has produced, have concocted between them a Civil War episode which will be found in none of the history books. They would have the audience believe that in June 1864, a Kansas Senator and a Confederate general, himself a onetime U. S. Senator, planned to have both sides declare an armistice, march united against the French interlopers in Mexico, thus put an end to fraternal bloodshed...
...MEMOIRS OF DAVID LLOYD GEORGE: 1916-1917-Little, Brown...
...back of David Lloyd George's mind there are heroes and villains, and he speaks his mind. Canny Welshman, he bided his time until most of his enemies had spoken theirs. This third (but not last) volume of his War Memoirs, like the first and second, is both a rebuttal and an attack. His worst enemies never doubted he was able, but Lloyd George still has the point, of view of an unreconstructed pre-War statesman. He still believes the Allies won the War. He still believes in "victory." His defense of his own conduct as War Prime Minister...
...this week, because there are two other actors gracing the asbestos panel that more than make up for the not-too-beautiful cigarette girl. The first of these redeeming personalities is an old timer, just about as old as they come in point of service, none other than Harold Lloyd in "The Cat's Paw," a production adapted from a tale by Robert Louis Stevenson's modern counterpart in honesty, Clarence Buddington Kelland. The other propitiatory offering is a newcomer to the screen, but one on whom the Playgoer would bet his last and bottom dollar. She is Helen Trenholme...
Everybody except Freshmen know Harold Lloyd by heart. Some members of the Class of 1938 might even remember one of his productions. It is sufficient to say that he is unchanged, and those who enjoy a bolly-laugh at slapstick and rather primitive humor will not be disappointed...