Word: lynton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, U. S. District Court Judge Vincent L. Leibell ordered Loews Inc. and three subsidiaries to pay Authors Edward Sheldon and Margaret Ayer Barnes $532,153 for plagiarizing their play Dishonored Lady, produced in 1930, in the picture Letty Lynton, produced...
...this cynicism will be "noted or long remembered" except as something which typified the Twenties. But a few works stand out as having truly lasting qualities. One of these is Heinz Liepmann's "Nights of an Old Child" which has been translated from its original German by A. Lynton Hudson...
...Letty Lynton (MGM). The heroine of this picture further enlightens cinemaddicts on the pains of promiscuity. Letty Lynton (Joan Crawford) not only has lovers. She has one who is patently the lowest grade of Latin American, and she kills him with a dose of poison. So rude and forceful are his amorous tactics that she has the full sympathy of all decent members of the audience. She is driven to distracted crime by her high-minded affection for a young Bostonian (Robert Montgomery). Her low Latin despises this affection, threatens to cut it short. Letty Lynton's misdemeanors...
...Edinburgh trial, in 1857, of one Madeleine Smith (which was also the inspiration for Dishonored Lady, played by Katharine Cornell on the Manhattan stage) was the source of Letty Lynton. Whatever evil effect the picture may have on the behavior of its patrons will be increased by the fact that it'is a well-constructed, well-written melodrama which avoids the stencils of its type. Nils Asther is a blonde athlete from Stockholm Yet he wears fuzzy sideburns and speaks in such a way as to be the epitome of Latin menace. There is another immoral character...
...have been appointed are as follows: C. C. Alpern 3L, F. L. Dewey 3L, T. S. Jaffin 3L, G. D. Jagels 3L. S. S. Janney 3L., S. M. Klein 3L, Harold Lynton 3L. J. H. Nichols 3L, P. H. Rhinelander 3L, M. Q. Shaughnessy 3L, Nathan Witt 3L, H. B. Gardner 2L., R. H. Merrick 2L, E. T. Nunneley 2L, J. D. Stephenson...