Word: neils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio actor named Drexel Biddle Steele said he was "giving a small supper party-only about 30 persons," for Claire Delmar, Swiss actress, in Los Angeles' swank Embassy Club, when belligerent Peter Arno, sexy cartoonist of the New Yorker, entered the club with Film Actress Sally O'Neil. Cartoonist Arno, who two years ago was chased across the landscape of Reno, Nev. by Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. with an unloaded pistol, was introduced to Miss Delmar, became angry when Actor Steele "explained at that moment that there was just one thing that he lacked-besides being born...
With Mrs. Barry, we find her young son, Neil, a fellow who would bring vexation, heartache and happiness to the mother who wished to do so much for him with so very little at her command. He is superbly set down. His inquisitiveness and untactfulness are truly boy-like and unheeding of the deep hurt they bring to his mother. She accepts his adolescent questioning and carries it off gracefully and shrewdly until the danger is passed...
...than hers--he has, as she had, a gift for extracting the essentials of a little episode so that every word secures a worth and richness of effect seldom obtained in literature. The loving kindness of Mrs. Barry, the course, unskillful ministrations of her neighbors, the youthful vitality of Neil combine to form a work of fiction which is grandly close to life itself...
...Hugo Barnstead. Into the office walks Hugo Barnstead, to have a tooth pulled. Biff Grimes grimly turns on the gas, apparently planning to leave it on until Hugo is out of the way. Then comes a long flashback. It shows Biff Grimes, in youth a boastful lout, and Hugo (Neil Hamilton) meeting Virginia (Fay Wray) and her less exciting friend Amy Lind (Frances Fuller) at an amusement park; Hugo getting married to Virginia one evening when Biff thinks he has a date with her; Amy getting married to Biff, to console him. The door of Biff Grimes's office...
...Hitchcock. At the same moment Hopping rode into him. Hitchcock and Hopping rode off after the ball. Alone, Williams reeled in the saddle, then fell to the ground. Hustled to a hospital, he was found to have a refracture of an old break below the right knee. Assistant Manager Neil McCarthy went to No. 1. Aidan Roark to back, and the West, with its captain gone, scored only one more goal in the last three chukkers, to lose 12 to 8. Of the East's twelve goals, four were driven in by Hopping, one from 100 yards...