Word: parrott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...staterooms of friends sailing for Europe with the greeting: "Just something to read. . . ." However, she sculpts a little and writes verse. Her singing is surprisingly good. For her next picture she is deciding between two serious pieces-Rockabye, an unpublished English play, and Love Goes Past by Ursula Parrott...
...FRED W. PARROTT...
Strangers May Kiss (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This is one of those handsomely staged, well-acted, rather silly productions which confound critics who try to reveal their silliness. The story is by Ursula Parrott, author of famed Ex-Wife; it will probably gross several million dollars. Norma Shearer is a working girl who says, "A girl may kiss and ride on as well as any man." Yet when Neil Hamilton, her journalist lover, companion of an illicit weekend in Mexico, says a casual goodbye to her, she is seen in one of those rapid sequences indicating a shattering of feminine morale...
Good Fellow"-and passed the hat to buy him a watch. Meanwhile Reporter Lindesay Parrott, an ace newswriter of the World, tapped out the World's death notice for its last edition. An editorial was pulled out and in its place was put Editor Walter Lippmann's "Valedictory," ending with a quotation from Mr. Valiant-For-Truth in The Pilgrim's Progress: "Though with great difficulty I am got thither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I had been at to arrive where I am: My sword I give to him that...
Birthday. Col. Edwin A. Parrott. Age: 100. Date: Nov. 30. Celebration: a party at his Princeton, N. J. home, to which came his brother H. Eugene Parrott, 92, his son Thomas Marc Parrott, 63, professor of English at Princeton University. Colonel Parrott chanced to be in the Governor of Ohio's office when President Lincoln called for volunteers, believes he was the first man to enlist. He became Colonel of the 1st Ohio Infantry, won medals, was later made provost of Ohio. From 1866-67 he was Speaker of Ohio's Lower House. He went to Ohio Wesleyan...