Word: outcastes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loew's Orpheum: "Outcast Lady"--Constance Bennett is getting a bit tiresome and this latest effort at being a bad but intriguing lady falls somewhat fist...
Loew's State: "Outcast Lady" and "Have a Heart"--The first picture stars Constance Bennett, Herbert Marshall, Hugh Williams, and Ralph Forbes. The story is taken from the popular novel "The Green Hat". The second picture includes Jean Parker, James Dunn, Una Merkel, and Stuart Erwin in the cast...
Frederick William Rolfe ("Baron Corvo") belongs with those eccentrics of literature whose books are caviar to the general. He experimented with words of his own concoction long before Joyce. His tales bear the stamp of strange originality. His life was that of a would-be priest, painter, novelist, historian, outcast, ascetic, sensualist, madman...
...good old anatomical word in England, "bum" in U. S. parlance means a down-&-outer. But not every social outcast answers willingly to the name. Many a hobo is no bum but a journeyman worker, traveling cheaply from one seasonal occupation to another. Some "jungle" inhabitants are college graduates, may even be sociologists in search of statistics. Such a bloodhound in bum's clothing was Author Thomas Minehan. Disguising himself with apparently complete success, he spent two years' vacations traveling in boxcars, weekending in jungles, standing in mission breadlines, indefatigably taking notes. The result was the first book...
...member of a large and odd family," and was reared in the south of England. Her Spartan father, recently deceased, "believed all poets were blackguards, that Moses actually saw God in the brush fire, that ethical excellence could only be inculcated by the heavy rod, that trade was outcast and that the summum bonum of existence was to avoid your neighbor." Miss Gore's mother reared her to believe in poetry, in fantastic superstitions like witches, ghosts and the headless coachman, and in the nobility of the Gores--"if Ireland had her rights each of us would be wearing...