Word: moritz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Based on a story by Charles Bennett and D. B. Wyndham Lewis, The Man Who Knew Too Much starts calmly enough in St. Moritz where Lawrence (Leslie Banks), his wife (Edna Best) and their small daughter (Nova Pilbeam) are performing winter sports. A fellow guest at their hotel is mysteriously shot. Dying, he begs Lawrence to find a code message in his room, deliver it to the British Foreign Office. Lawrence finds the message but before he can deliver it, the assassins have kidnapped his daughter, threatened to kill her if Lawrence carries out his mission...
When the trap drummer of the Conte di Savoia seasickened in mid-Atlantic, big, bald, walrus-mustached Banker Felix Moritz Warburg (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.) volunteered to take his place. Resplendent with a white carnation in the lapel of his dinner jacket, Banker Warburg drummed skillfully through three stormy evenings...
Last year Theodore L. Moritz was trained in the school of political circus master: he was secretary to Mayor McNair of Pittsburgh. Last autumn he got his diploma in clowning: Pittsburgh elected him to Congress. Last week connoisseurs, who expected much of his political antics, discovered to their surprise that the first bill introduced by Mr. Moritz contained the seeds of great good sense...
...Moritz, Switzerland, Jan. 8-Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., actor, and Lady Ashley, divorced wife of Lord Ashley, arrived here today from Paris and registered at the Palace Hotel...
...Swift married Banker James Paul Warburg, son of the late Paul Moritz Warburg. Last week she was in Reno suing for divorce. Under the name of ''Paul James" her husband wrote the lyrics for many of her popular tunes. Their best collaboration was for Fine & Dandy which starred Funnyman Joe Cook...