Word: noblewoman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three sons, two were disappointments. Heinrich, the eldest, married a Hungarian noblewoman, was made a baron of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire by Emperor Franz Josef, and thereafter showed more interest in collecting art than in making steel. At 60 he divorced his Baroness and married a Berlin mannequin, who was later severely injured in the motor accident in which Prince Serge Mdivani, ex-husband of Woolworth Heiress Barbara Hutton, was killed. The youngest, August Jr., became embittered at his father and had visions of founding an industrial empire of his own. Father August ran Son August into bankruptcy...
...Dictator last week five crisp new 1,000 lira bills, and to an Italian peasant 5,000 lire is a great deal more than its exchange equivalent in the U. S. ($263). Each also received a paid-up insurance policy. Of the 94 champions one is an Italian noblewoman, mother of seven...
...Auer combine their comic efforts in cementing the romance of their theatre-born ward (Joy Hodges) and Scion John King. Since this scheme merely involves hoodwinking Alice Brady it turns out to be not too difficult. Comics Auer and Savo dabble in the occult. House impersonates an English noblewoman, in his spare moments trains Fall Guy Lahr for a wrestling bout. Actress Brady is properly taken in. Best shots: Mummer Savo bestowing an imaginary wedding present with all the airy panoply of pantomime; Swami Auer winning Wrestler Lahr's bout for him with levitation's artful aid; Barytone...
...unique means Petroff selects to meet his inamorata, a set of misunderstandings begins which brings into action an ocean liner, a pack of dogs, an airplane, a marriage for business reasons, an absent-minded impresario (Edward Everett Horton), an oily hotel manager (Eric Blore) and a scheming noblewoman (Ketti Gallian) before the two dancers arrive in each other's arms for good...
...president of the great steel corporation, is skillfully played by Henri Rollan, who wisely uses all the restraint required by the role of a dignified, devoted, long-suffering man. He is paired with Gaby Morlay, who is just as deftly quiet in her portrayal of the proud noblewoman who frankly marries out of spite, and then doesn't know how to break the news when she falls in love with her husband. These two go far to make the story plausible. More in keeping with the excesses of the plot are Jacques Dumesnil, who simpers and sneers...