Word: mauriers
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...feels is one of the finest lectures in College. He has heard it twice but he will go again today to hear Mr. Hersey speak on the "Paris of the Great Writers." There is the Revolution of Dickens, the Notre Dame of Victor Hugo, and the Montmartre of Du Maurier and the Vagabond must fight with DeFarge, pour lead with Quasimodo, and swagger along the boulevards with Taffy...
Engaged. Peter ("Pan") Llewellyn Davies, British publisher, nephew of Actor Sir Gerald Du Maurier; and Hon. Margaret Hore-Ruthven, onetime mannequin and dancer with her beauteous twin sister, Hon. Alison Mary. Publisher Davies, orphaned in youth with his four brothers, became a ward of Sir James Matthew Barrie, was the inspiration of Peter...
...learned that at his very desk once toiled the great tragedian Sir Henry Irving. Bookseller Matthews promptly changed his vocation, got a job as call boy at the Princess Theatre. At that show-shop he was given his first part, later appearing with Ellen Terry, Sir Gerald du Maurier and other notables in the British theatre's heyday. He first went to the U. S. to act Love Among The Lions, in 1910. Since then he has lent his amiable presence to Peg O' My Heart, Bull-Dog Drummond, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, The First Mrs. Fraser...
...road restaurants, brought home tasty food to Tex. Within 48 hours les petites filles had M. Epstein so well in hand that he let Miss Guinan lunch (once) at Havre's Frascati's. Vive la petite fille?then bang! From Paris the Director General of the Surete Generale, M. Maurier, telegraphed that nobody was to be let out of the pen. M. Epstein, Miss Guinan & kids were undone. Kid Anne Boleyn started general hysterics by screaming: "We'll never get to Paris! I want to go home...
...creation of sinister atmosphere by means of makeup, pale rolling eyes, false whiskers, mouth pieces used for the distortion of the teeth, and stilts in his shoes to make him look taller. He is Svengali, the musical hypnotist of the Latin quarter, in a story that is Du Maurier's Trilby except that the character of Trilby (Marian Marsh) is played down and Svengali played up. Barrymore handles all the artifices of the acting trade with gusto and intelligence. He meets Trilby at the time when she has fallen in love with a charming English aristocrat...