Word: parkavian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scribbling nights on scratch-pads for two years. Sally Salminen, 30-year-old Finnish maid (employed by a Parkavian family), completed Katrina, a Swedish novel to which Helsingfors publishers awarded a prize of $2,100. "Ever since I can remember I wanted to write," she confessed when cameramen and newshawks arrived in her kitchen. "I was always sort of a crybaby, feeling sad because I didn't have an education...
...George Brewster Jr., was ably played at a New Haven tryout by Tallant Tubbs, 36, wealthy San Francisco ropemaker who in 1932 was defeated for the Senate in California by William Gibbs McAdoo. As a socialite playboy Actor Tubbs pops on & off stage trying to con sole a beauteous Parkavian heroine after she is stricken with brain trouble, loses zest for her customary pleasures. "I'm giving the role everything I've got," said Actor Tubbs...
...that arises in this picture. Constance Bennett is operative K-14 of Russia. When she is not warming up scraps of paper to make legible their messages in invisible ink she is lolling crisply in the arms of a Viennese secret agent (Gilbert Roland) and saying in her Parkavian voice how much she loves him. Just when it looks as though Miss Bennett, like Greta Garbo in Mata Hari and Marlene Dietrich in Dishonored, will receive attention from a firing squad, an assistant spy shoots the Viennese secret agent severely enough to keep him quiet till the War is over...
...around. His rich fiancée (Margaret Barker, a striking blonde with a thick Colony Club accent) gives him to understand that he must choose between dedicating his life to medicine and research, or living with her in the comfort of a Parkavian practice. At the critical moment, a little student nurse impulsively surrenders herself to Interne Ferguson...
...gallon; two of them will go 75 at a pinch. Some of the upholstery: A day in the frantically hard-working life of a successful actress, far removed from the "glamour" her public imagines her surrounded with. Efficient Fraulein's day off from her opulent Parkavian charges shows her efficient even in love. Manhattan Taxi-driver Ernie calls it an uneventful day after 16 hours of crowded life. Wifely Muriel spoils her husband's would-be romantic trip to Mexico by tagging along. Linny, all alone in Manhattan Sunday after Sunday, finally gives a friendly answer...