Word: passport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eighteenth week "Moonlight Sonata", which has the disadvantage of being an English film but the more than compensating advantage of Paderewski. Across from the Yard in Harvard Square the University in featuring "The Texans", a mediocre Paramount picture with Joan Bennett and Randolph Scott, and Stuart Erwin in "Passport Husband." Sunday will bring Harold Lloyd's decrepit but still amusing "Professor Beware...
State Department officials refused to give Cinemactress Sigrid Gurie a passport. Reason: although she was born in Brooklyn, the U. S. signed a complicated treaty with Norway in 1871 by the terms of which her return to Norway at the age - Winner of 48 matches to Fred Perry's 35 in their 1938 professional tennis tour. of 3 made her a Norwegian, maybe. Experts last week were not sure what she was. Pouted pretty Sigrid Gurie: "It's untrue about Brooklyn not being American. Brooklyn is a part of this country. I'm certain...
Prince Max, although ardently pro-German, keeps his fingers crossed, has a passport which makes him a subject of the Principality of Liechtenstein. Last week he mobilized his villagers, his gamekeepers, his servants and his toddling infants, all of whom gave the Nazi salute as Lord Runciman arrived in formal black jacket, wing collar and black bat tie. Herr Henlein turned up in brown tweed coat, grey flannel slacks and white shoes. Present was the German agent known as "Princess Steffi," who generally operates in London. There she has been hostess to Herr Henlein and to Adolf Hitler...
...came glowing descriptions of the triumphal march through Italy of Hearst Columnist Arthur ("Bugs") Baer with many an Italian official bowing & scraping before him. Reason: on his passport, where the ordinary person places the name of his nearest relative to be notified "in case of death or accident," Funnyman Baer had written: "President F. D. Roosevelt, White House, Washington...
Technically under detention for landing on Irish soil without a passport, Gone Again Corrigan was this week as free as wire. And in Washington, where B. A. C. Chief Denis Mulligan was expected to decree some penalty for the outlaw flight there was a twinkling hint that whatever Corrigan had done was all right with Mulligan. Said Mr. Mulligan: "It's a great day in the history of the Irish people and we don't want to spoil their fun by talking about punishment...