Word: lytton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last Days of Pompeii (RKO). The connection between this picture and Baron Bulwer-Lytton's famed novel begins and ends with the title. It is a massive melodrama relating in epic terms the life history of an Augustan prizefighter, ancient in its settings but modern in its methods, and equipped with everything from the Crucifixion to a holdup...
...pair light brown pants, no marks, One pinched back light brown coat marked Oppenheim Segal, Boston, One white linen sport suit marked "Made in England," Gibbons Co, Bermuda, one white linen suit Marked Henry C. Lytton & Co. One white linen sports suit unmarked...
Heir Astor, so shy that he often swallows twice before answering a simple question, was sent by the League of Nations' cowardly Lytton Commission to investigate Northern Manchuria when they deemed it too dangerous to go themselves (TiME, May 30, 1932). Next year, stopping in Manhattan's new Waldorf-Astoria, Mr. Astor remarked: "When my friends try to telephone me and ask for Waldorf Astor the operators say, 'Oh, yeah?' I suppose it is rather like calling up the Aquarium and asking for Mr. Fish...
John Milton is no longer biographical news. Unlike Shakespeare's, his life has no tantalizingly mysterious blind spots. And no one, since bull-roaring Sam Johnson made his blundering attempt, has tried to debunk Milton; even the Lytton Strachey school of butterfly-breakers has let him respectfully alone. Not because Biographers Belloc and Macaulay were likely to disclose any startling Miltonic discoveries but because both are prominent professional writers, readers last week wanted to see what they had to say about their great predecessor...
...Revues, appeared in Earl Carroll's Vanities, starred in Wake Up and Dream. Her present husband is John Robert Hale-Monro ("Sonnie Hale"). They were married in 1931 after Sonnie Hale was divorced by Actress Evelyn Laye and Jessie Matthews was divorced by her first husband, Actor Henry Lytton Jr., following her voluntary testimony of her own adultery with Actor Hale. She likes riding, plays good tennis, dances three or four hours daily...