Word: owens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defect common to British cinemas because the best British actors are either on the stage or in Hollywood-this one, second product of Paramount's Elstree studio to be released in the U. S., suffers from poor photography and sound recording. Typical shot: Margot (Gertrude Lawrence) and Willie (Owen Nares) squabbling in an ornate night-club while a Negro orchestra in shirt-sleeves plays The Peanut Vendor amid a cloud of toy balloons...
...Miss Grace Van Braam Roberts of Highland, N. Y., "farmer," suffraget and clubwoman. She was no ordinary sheared, bleating lamb but a shrewd woman who was once a very active trader, whose father was the late Charles Henry Roberts, president of the Carolina Central Railroad and whose brother is Owen F. Roberts, former independent member of the New York Stock Exchange. The bone of her contention was that in 1921 Hayden. Stone & Co. had "induced" her to buy 150 Atlantic, Gulf & West Indies shares although the house was running a pool in the stock at the time to keep...
...Daughter Megan, Son Gwilym and the son's brother-in-law, Major Goromvy Owen. ?The present London Government has erected a brand new tariff wall around Great Britain (TIME, May 2) but this tariff applies to foreign not Dominion goods...
...Florida last week a Wet wave engulfed the daughter of the late great William Jennings Bryan, champion of Prohibition. Representative Ruth Bryan Owen of the Atlantic Coast district from Jacksonville to Key West had declared for a referendum before she started to campaign for Democratic renomination. That, however, did not save her from being defeated by Mark Wilcox, West Palm Beach attorney, who strenuously advocated the quickest possible repeal of the 18th Amendment. Mrs. Owen announced she would resign her House seat after the November election, instead of serving out her term to March 4, because she did not believe...
...theories, but there is nothing particularly Owenyoungish about these and the man behind them fails to appear. Even her long account of her hero's Van Hornesville activities leaves him half mythical. All who know him testify that personal magnetism, intangible as electricity, is the substance on which Owen D. Young has founded his success. Apparently that magnetism is too elusive to register on Biographer Tarbell's dictaphone...