Word: pauperized
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...makes peace with Banker Bitts. Billy Mauch is the boy who played the young Anthony Adverse. He has an equally talented twin, Bobby Mauch, whose mother, according to Hollywood legend, cannot tell them apart. The Mauches will play the dual leads in Warner's forthcoming The Prince & the Pauper. Best shot: Verman telling what he saw in the barn...
...Colgate University (Hamilton, N. Y.), irritated President George Barton Cutten barked at his incoming freshmen: "We have heard a lot and read reams about the predatory rich, but is it not time that someone said something about the parasitic pauper? . . . A parasite thinks the world owes him a living. . . . During nine months of prenatal life, and years of infancy, a person acquires parasitic habits. . . . The parasite has never been properly weaned psychologically and he is always hunting around for a nipple...
...them sells herself to her sensual boss, and although her condemnation is half facetious, it is clear that her act is not to be admired. Another throws himself before a subway train, and although he has been a complacent parasite on his pauper friends, there is the uncomfortable hint that in his death he is the bravest of them all. Ken Holden, the some-what major figure, trims his political views to suit his status of the moment, and when he learns that his life-giving job is merely a concoetion of his father's well-meant trickery, he gets...
Banker Jackson Eli Reynolds of First National and Morgan Partner George Whitney had a more immediate objection: they thought that with the current low estate of rails they would have a pauper's hard time selling a 4% Central bond, conversion feature or no. Moreover, by selling the bonds as Mr. Jones suggested, they hinted that he was tricking them into "an underwriting . . . forbidden by [New Deal] law." And, listing all the other objections they could think of, together with a counterproposal (put both bank and RFC loans on a six-month-notice basis), Messrs. Reynolds & Whitney wrote...
...with an inferior epic based on the Freudian theory of dreams, he began to produce pictures of his own, became the No. 1 cineman of Hungary after the War. This trifling distinction served as a mild irritant. He went to Vienna, made a hit called The Prince and the Pauper, married an actress named Maria Farkas, moved on to Berlin to work for UFA, arrived in Hollywood as a director for First National in 1925. After a series of mildly successful pictures, of which the most notable was The Private Life of Helen of Troy, he joined...