Word: onslow
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...Swallows, a play about San Juan Capistrano's annual bird visitors by Ramon Romero, Hollywood correspondent for Spanish-language magazines; and Miner's Gold, a '49er show by Agnes Peterson, a Los Angeles school board official. Founder Brown will play the title role in Montezuma. Young Onslow Stevens, who with Gloria Stuart is the Playhouse's gift to the films, will come back from Hollywood to take the lead in the Romero show. There will be lectures preceding each week's bill and "festival breakfasts" to discuss what the plays are about...
...King George employed the pronouns "we" "us" and "our" in addressing his Lords and Commons, but King Edward insisted upon "I," "me" and "my" in the Speech from the Throne proroguing Parliament, which was read last week, in the absence of His Majesty, by the Earl of Onslow...
...retrieves a brooch injudiciously entrusted to an English admirer, it reveals D'Artagnan as an incompetent young cavalier whose headlong efforts to combat an international intrigue are successful only because the villainess treats him with uncalled for generosity and because Athos (Paul Lukas), Porthos (Moroni Olsen) and Aramis (Onslow Stevens ) interest themselves in drying him behind the ears. Good sequence: the three musketeers overtaking the coach in which Milady de Winter (Margot Grahame) has kidnapped D'Artagnan...
...full-length portrait, done with all the emphasis on unity of time and place that is currently in fashion, Counsellor at Law shows its subject against a single background, the glittering onyx and aluminum offices of Simon & Tedesco (Onslow Stevens). Playwright Elmer Rice, who adapted his own successful play, surrounded his study of Lawyer Simon with sketches of his associates and friends. Old Mrs. Simon wobbles into her son's office at odd moments, chattering in dialect. Lawyer Simon's stepchildren are nasty urchins who despise him for an illbred Jew. His secretary worships...
Revived, Captain Onslow (Warner Baxter) is in a peculiar position. He is affianced to a blonde Baroness Von Sturm (Miriam Jordan) but he decides that it would be more generous to break the engagement so that she will fall in love with his rival (John Boles). Highly satisfied with his experience of death, he is able to reassure an old lady that her departed son is well and happy, a small girl that her little brother has elephants to play with. He attends an important conference in time to cast the vote that defeats a treaty which would have injured...