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...find out who is Minister of Labor he discovers handsome, rich and epigrammatic young Major Oliver Stanley, second son of the huge-paunched, sporting 17th Earl of Derby. Major Stanley's poised and gracious mother is Bedchamber Woman to Her Majesty the Queen. His beauteous wife is Maureen, eldest daughter of the Marquess and Marchioness of Londonderry, social backers and promoters of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. To a Laborite the mere fact that aristocratic Major Stanley, a successful ex-stockbroker, was made Minister of Labor last year brands National Government a sham. To Conservatives nothing seems more right...
Nowhere Bound (by Leo Birinski; Birinski, Inc., producer) includes in its overstuffed cast characters named Tomski, McTavish, Schwartz, Grasso, Maureen, Basil Oxley, Ipolita Romanescu and A Young Turk. This polyglot crew is traveling involuntarily across the continent in a sleeping car on a special Government train. When they reach Ellis Island they are all to be deported as undesirable aliens. With this novel background, Playwright Birinski manages with considerable grace to produce a number of situations no less novel...
...David off to earn his living; violent Aunt Betsey (Edna May Oliver), who befriends David and beats such visitors as ride donkeys to her Dover cottage; Mr. Dick (Lennox Pawle), her shrewd, erratic house guest who was always getting the head of King Charles I into his writings; Dora (Maureen O'Sullivan) who uses the account book for sketching and whose spaniel lives in a pagoda; Agnes (Madge Evans), whom David marries when Dora dies-all these and a dozen other great Dickensian characters live and move and have their being in this picture. Best of the lot, though...
...when she was 3 down to Dorothy Traung, a 20-year-old San Franciscan, on the tenth hole in the final. By this time, Defending Champion Van Wie had defeated "Glenna" (Glenna Collett Vare), who had had her second baby in two years three months before the tournament started. "Maureen" (squarejawed Maureen Orcutt of Englewood, N. J.) had been beaten in the third round, and all but one member of the British Curtis Cup team had been put out the first day of match play. Playing skillfully against an opponent who, almost unknown before the tournament started, now seemed very...
...back incurred playing football with a team of small boys. Coached by D. E. Miner, golf professional at De Land, Fla., where the Van Wies spend their winters, she entered her first tournament at 16, beat Glenna Collett in the Florida East Coast Championship the next year. With Glenna, Maureen and Helen Hicks, whom she beat in the final of the National last year, Virginia ("Gino") Van Wie, now 25, was a member of the group of four women golfers who shared almost all the major prizes of the game until Mrs. Vare went into semi-retirement two years...