Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With an Old Testament sonority the Chattanooga Times editorialized: "The label of criminality has been stamped upon the name of the once great Luke Lea. . . . Instead of serving the people who had honored him he elected to serve Mammon. His ambition for great riches led from the path of honor. And the day of reckoning is at hand...
...sometimes simplifies too far, that her people are sometimes so one-sided as to be simply silly, that she sometimes, for one who can write like an angel, gives a fair imitation of poor Poll: "When Pierre had made a landing and tied his boat, they went up the path to the smith's house, to find the family at dinner. They were warmly received and seated at the dinnertable. The smith had no son, but four little girls. After dinner Cécile went off into the fields with them to pick wild strawberries. She had never seen...
...Common Law (RKO Pathé). First essential of a problem play is a problem. Since the problem which is the excuse for this picture ceased to exist a long time ago, the play is consistently a bore. It concerns an artist's model who has had an affair with an American in Paris. This misdemeanor makes her very reluctant about marrying a painter, with whom she next becomes intimate. Further obstacles to the wedding are provided by the painter's sister, a severely conventional socialite. When the model's first lover (Lew Cody, grown a trifle...
When she signed an RKO Pathé contract in 1929 Constance was shrewd enough to insist on a ten-week holiday every year. Recently she spent this holiday working for Warner Brothers at $30,000 a week, highest salary ever paid to a cinemactress. Last week she left Hollywood for a trip to Europe with a quick stop-over in Manhattan. Her companion on train and boat (adjacent staterooms) was the Marquis de la Falaise et de la Coudray, estranged husband of Gloria Swanson...
When he appeared in Hollywood in the entourage of Cinemactress Swanson five years ago, the Marquis became acclimated quickly. When Cinemactress Swanson lost interest in him, he gave proof of a shrewd business head by securing Constance Bennett for RKO Pathé, where he was hired to supervise and direct talkies made for exportation to France. An alliance too open to be a scandal had existed between the Marquis and Constance before and since. On embarking for Europe last week, Cinemactress Bennett said there were no plans for a marriage, implied that there might be after Cinemactress Swanson gets...