Word: prevost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rich Americans on the moors The Twelfth, or ready to go there, included as usual, John Pierpont Morgan, Clarence Hungerford Mackay & wife, Bernard Mannes Baruch, Herbert Pulitzer, Grayson Mallet, Prevost Murphy...
...clerks. When both are discouraged by rumors of her misbehavior, she marries the family solicitor who has behaved more generously in the apparent emergency. Far funnier than the almost morbidly polite comicalities supplied by this situation are those contributed by the iceman (James Gleason) and Marie Prevost as a maid-of-all-work whose comments are ponderous, amazing. Sample-her rebuff to Iceman Gleason: "All I want
...forth in the case of a well-intentioned country girl (Mae Clarke) who becomes friendly with a gangster, later marries an honest youth of impeccable connections. The scandal of her past associations forces her back into disreputable surroundings but she is last seen reunited with her husband. Marie Prevost, now grown from a svelte ingenue into a buxom comedienne, gives a gay impersonation of a gun-moll's friend, but the picture should help kill the underworld's screen vogue...
...m.p.h. offshore wind snapped a high-tension wire feeding the summer homes of such cinema notables as Ronald Colman, Clara Bow, Gloria Swanson, Ruth Chatterton, Marie Prevost, at Malibu Beach, Calif. The wire fell on a tank of gasoline, exploded it. Fire ripped through the colony, destroyed 19 houses, including those of Louise Fazenda, Director Alan Dwan...
...Schwab forgot, but Mr. Grace simply would not tell. Each sat in the smart, new conference room of Lawyers Cotton, Franklin, Wright & Gordon at No. 63 Wall Street. There also sat Col. Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy, broker, director of Bethlehem Steel Corp., and there, for the moment, reposed the hopes of Cyrus Stephen Eaton, still waging bitter war against the merger of Bethlehem Steel with Youngstown Sheet & Tube...