Word: lupin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gerald made his only trip to the U. S. with Beerbohm Tree, acted in Hamlet, Henry IV, Trilby. In England he became one of the most famed actors of the land, played in Peter Pan, The Admirable Crichton, Brewster's Millions, Bulldog Drummond, Alias Jimmy Valentine, Arsene Lupin. He was knighted in 1922. Lately he acted in the cinema. His last part: a French valet in Catherine the Great...
...Stavisky investigation and then hiring five of the fanciest detectives to track down the murderers of Alexandre Stavisky and of Judge Albert Prince. The Paris-Soir pack of bloodhounds included Detective Story Writers Georges Simenon and André Gaston Leroux, son of the creator of Arsène Lupin; onetime Chief Inspector Alfred C. Collins of Scotland Yard; famed ex-Chief Constable Frederick Wensley, Britain's greatest detective (TIME, July 8, 1929); and last but not least Sir Basil Thomson, onetime Director of Intelligence of the British Secret Service...
...Prefect of Police, tamed the apaches, and with velvet-gloved truncheon put down each uprising of a notoriously restless populace. It was the quiet, tense efficiency of his regime which inspired the novels of Gaborlau, the mystery of Stevenson's "Suicide Club," and the dashing career of Arsene Lupin...
...Arsene Lupin" when it appeared two years ago was one of the first movies in which two male stars appeared together. John and Lionel Barrymore in one of their best performances are pitted against each other as the gentleman jewel robber, Arsene Lupin, and the chief of the Paris detective forces. Lupin's crowning coup is the theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre. Lionel, frustrated time and again, snorts, stamps, and raves superbly...
Died. William Courtenay, 57, oldtime stage actor (The Wolf, Arsene Lupin, Romance, Under Fire, The Inside Story}; of a heart ailment incurred more than two years ago during the filming of Three Faces East...