Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spectacle, Things to Come compares favorably with its Hollywood rivals, from Intolerance to The Crusades, but it differs from all predecessors in its class by demanding a cerebral rather than an emotional response. Its climax is reached not when two lovers are reunited but when an unmarried couple (Pearl Argyle, Kenneth Villiers) more interested in the cosmos than in each other disappear from the screen in the direction of the moon, thus causing the President of the World, Raymond Massey, to state the Wellsian moral: ''All the Universe or nothingness-which shall...
...dinner. One evening last week the Cabinet solemnly assembled at the Mayflower Hotel to dine their chief. At the appointed time he did not appear. They waited and waited. At the White House Valet Irvin McDuffy was desperately turning the Presidential wardrobe inside out: the President's white pearl vest buttons could not be found. Having stewed for nearly half an hour, the Cabinet finally had the pleasure of seeing Mrs. Roosevelt arrive accompanied by her husband with a row of black buttons down his white vest. ¶To mark the fact that he last week completed three years...
...picture opens in Paris, where Tom Bradley (Gary Cooper), a handsome young automobile engineer from Detroit, is setting out for a holiday in Spain. Madeleine de Beaupré (Marlene Dietrich) is also off for Spain. She is a de luxe jewel thief and in her handbag is secreted a pearl necklace worth 2,200,000 francs. Their paths cross along the road, where he fixes her car; again at the border, where she slips the pearls into his pocket to get past the customs inspectors; once more in Madrid, where she joins her oily confederate (John Halliday). When the three...
...there passed through the streets of London last week, The Crown-with its 309 carat diamond, one of the "Stars of Africa"; its ruby big as a hen's egg from the Crown of Edward the Black Prince: the Stuart Sapphire from the Crown of Charles II: the pearl eardrops of Queen Elizabeth: the sapphire Edward the Confessor wore in his Coronation Ring. Great officials of the Kingdom were in utmost consternation when they noticed belatedly that The Crown's topping of a Maltese cross set with a square sapphire, eight medium-sized diamonds and 192 smaller diamonds...
...Dorian von Marienhof of Mazelaine, Inc., announced that his company had sold 1,000 shares to 200 shareholders, most of them apparently persons who felt that by helping to publicize Boxer von Marienhof, they might also help to publicize themselves. Among them were Dancer Sally Rand, Comedian Jack Pearl, Song Writer George Whiting. Fancier Wagner said he expected stud fees and show winnings to pay stockholders a 100% dividend...