Word: manors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Duke Oliver and his Rhythm Manor Orchestra will take an encore in Kirkland House on Friday, February 14, when the Deacons hold their mid-winter dance. The Duke's 12 piece negro band played for the fall dance, and his hot syncopation was marred only by the fact that he failed to appear in his customary white tails. He has promised, however, that he will take his second bow on the Kirkland band platform resplendent in white satin...
There will be music for dancing by Duke Oliver and his Rhythm Manor Orchestra from ten to two at the Kirkland House Christmas formal dance, instead of from ten to twelve as reported yesterday...
...bored, cynical, a voluptuary who declared he had "drained life to the very dregs." Heavily in debt, he dreaded his reunion with his fat, tactless mother who had taunted him about his lameness; he was oppressed by thoughts of living in Newstead, the chill, half-ruined manor that was haunted with memories of the crimes of his wild ancestors. He carried with him the manuscript of Childe Harold but expected nothing from that poem. On Aug. 1, his mother died. Next day one of his dearest friends was drowned. On Aug. 12, in the depths of despondency, he composed...
...desperate attempt to make the place habitable seem to promise that Golden Apples is to develop into one of those honest fantasies of man's barehanded struggle with Nature, of which Robinson Crusoe is the masterpiece. But at this point Mrs. Rawlings introduces Richard Tordell, late of Tordell Manor, an embittered gentleman who fulfills all the requirements of the stage Englishman except that of dressing for dinner. With him she introduces a dull melodrama revolving around his affair with Allie, now grown to womanhood, Luke's anger, a marriage and two convenient deaths which clear...
Vanessa: Her Love Story (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), adapted by Hugh Walpole from his own novel, is an earnest, lachrymose romance of the Jubilee Era, slightly oversold on its message, Love Will Find a Way. Benjie Herries (Robert Montgomery) is the black sheep of a huge English manor-house and bagpipe family. Other members of the family include a female centenarian (May Robson), lovely young Vanessa (Helen Hayes) and an anti-social introvert with a persecution complex (Otto Kruger). The trouble starts when Benjie goes to China instead of marrying Vanessa immediately. When he gets back, the manor house burns down...