Word: partnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Returning from the war with his heart and lungs crippled, Raft rejects the doctor's counsel and continues his dancing. When his new partner fails him on the opening night, Helen consents to substitute, and to dance the Bolero again. Preparing to give an encore, he suffers a heart attack amid the applause, and expires in an unconvincing dressing-room scene...
...brick building. There in a space 25 by 25 ft. the two-billion-dollar railroad system held its annual stockholders' meeting. There were no stockholders present, except the directors. With proxies representing some 2,000,000 shares, the directors voted on routine matters, elected three directors, including Senior Partner George Emlen Roosevelt of Roosevelt & Son. After a quick adjournment they climbed in their private car and went away. Nobody in Woodford County knew they had come or gone except two State agents...
...partnership in a Swiss clinic of his own. Nicole seems better but Dick cannot get Rosemary out of his head. Several years later he runs into her in Italy. They become lovers and quarrel. Dick goes back to the clinic, takes to drink, gradually goes to pot. His partner buys him out. Nicole, now completely cured, looks at her once-adored husband with new eyes, sees him rapidly losing his charm and his character. She takes the patient Tommy Barban as a lover, divorces Dick. He goes back to the U. S. and becomes a less & less respectable country doctor...
...Jolson sings well but sings about three times too often; he brings in his gags self-consciously as an amateur vaudeville performer. Dolores Del Rio dances beautifully. Ricardo Cortez as her dancing partner looks like a hard, bad man; we like him better smiling. Dick Powell in a serious revival of his humorous part in "Blessed Event" is a singing, composing orchestra leader faintly reminiscent of a well-known insecticide. Kay Francis as a banker's lonely wife looks too gloomy. Louise Fazenda with her setback coiffure provides some good laughs, while Guy Kibbee and Hugh Herbert are conventional chaperoned...
...years ago in the largest house on Manhattan's Washington Square was born H. (for Henry) Hobart Porter. His brother Seton Porter was born on 47th Street. Both grew up to be engineers. Hobart helped found the great firm of Sanderson & Porter which Seton later joined as a partner. In business as well as politics engineers sometimes become chief executives. Brother Hobart chose water for his province, Brother Seton whiskey...