Word: playboys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HERE, in lithograph and concise chronicle, is the story of John Reed, playboy, poet, and hero of present-day U. S. radicals. It is a thrilling and intensely interesting story...
...mobster judges in blue overalls continued to deal out what they called "Class Justice" last week. With no war or battle in Madrid, the capital's gravediggers by official count were nevertheless burying some 250 corpses per week. In jail sat the once debonair Duke of Zaragoza, the playboy engineer who sometimes took the throttle of King Alfonso's private train, with the Madrid proletariat clamoring outside last week for a chance to throttle him. After a White air raid on the capital Premier Largo Caballero had to use all force at his disposal to keep his enthusiastic...
...estimable Jack Oakie sparkles winningly in a good, simple, swift paced movie called "Florida Special". His amusing antics and rapid-fire humor show to advantage in the midst of the customary variety of characters including a wealthy old capitalist, his very spoiled niece, a charming hostess, the inevitable handsome playboy, and an assortment of gangsters. Young Jane Withers brings up the rear in a companion piece, a screen adaption of Tarkington's "Gentle Julia," which informs the fans for the current year that the nineties were gay and that true love conquers...
Engaged. Mrs. Elizabeth Drexel Lehr, 64, daughter of the late, great Philadelphia Financier Joseph William Drexel, widow of famed Socialite Playboy Henry Symes Lehr, of whom she last year wrote a bitter, best-selling biography ("King Lehr" and the Gilded Age) ; and the Baron John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford Decies, 70, representative peer for Ireland in Great Britain, whose first wife was the late Vivien, daughter of George Jay Gould; in Paris...
...Kremlin wall close to the tomb of Russia's god, is already canonized. To such Harvard classmates as Red-fearing Hamilton Fish Jr., Reed was a traitor to his class. But even within the revolutionary sect his sainthood is not unanimously acknowledged. Upton Sinclair called him "the playboy of the social revolution." To sympathetic Biographer Granville Hicks. Reed's life is an ennobling example of how revolutionaries are made. Unbiased readers of John Reed will feel that Sinclair's judgment hits nearest the mark, but that Reed was a Promethean playboy and what he played with...