Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poppycock love story about one of his friends. Most of the photography is poor. One of the rare good shots: newsreel of the actual crowd waiting in Berlin streets to see Richthofen's body carried by. Gold Diggers of Broadway (Warner). Avery Hopwood's comedy about a rich man who tried to save his heir from a chorus girl is the framework of an indifferent screen musical show. As a technical accomplishment, Gold Diggers of Broadway has virtues: it is well-dressed, ambitious, brightly colored, energetic; it has some passable tunes in it, and the chorus dances nicely...
...real that it suggests the use of a dictaphone. Best shot: Claudette Colbert being told by her lover that he contemplates deserting her. Our Modern Maidens (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The romantic flush of Michael Aden, the decorative gush of a Zuloaga gone mad, surround the frolics of rich U.S. youngfolk-if you would believe cinema producers. Recently Our Dancing Daughters with its imperial salons and moonswept amours caused such a flutter in nationwide breasts and box-offices that the Metro people repeated the formula with practically the same players involved. Swagger Joan Crawford tosses off cocktails with her real...
...last week. Contestants: H. R. D. ("Daisy") Waghorn, 25; R. L. R. Atcherly, 25; d'Arcy Grieg, 29; Giovanni Monti, 29; Rema Cadringher, 26; Tomaso dal Molin, 27. Lining Solent spithead were at least 1,000,000 spectators -the Prince of Wales on a yacht with his crony, rich Philip Sassoon, Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald with foreign ambassadors on the aircraft carrier Argus. Absent from race and show was Alford Joseph Williams, U. S. contestant, who had to withdraw because his racing plane would not leave the trial waters of the Severn River, Md. (TIME, Aug. 26). Around...
Like a great mausoleum the Metropolitan Museum of Art over an acre of Central Park in Manhattan, facing houses of the rich on Fifth Avenue. Inside are many tombs-tombs of Egyptian Pharaohs, of exalted bric-a-brac, of Art. In the art tombs are laid away examples of the work of the great painters and sculp- tors of other times. There are Rubenses, Rembrandts,* Rodins, Titians, Tintorettos, Tiepolos, scores of time-proven mediocrities, one Botticelli. Progressive artists throughout the East have long given up hope for modernity in the Metropolitan. Few of them ever visit its vaults. Scathingly they...
First presumption was that lightning had struck the plane, as it struck Major John Wood's plane at Needles, killing him. Relatives prayed for the passengers: Mrs. Corina A. Raymond, wife of George B. Raymond, T. A. T. clerk at Glendale, Cal.; Amasa B. McGaffey, rich Albuquerque lumberman; Harris Livermore, Boston shipping man; Mark M. Campbell, Cincinnati paper salesmanager; William Henry Beers of Manhattan, editor of Golf Illustrated. The crew included Pilot Jesse B. Stowe, Co-Pilot Edwin F. A. Dietel, Courier C. F. Canfield...