Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Italy. The noted volcanologist, Professor Malladra, expressed satisfaction at a minor eruption of Vesuvius, which frightened out of their wits the grape growers who till the rich soil at its base. "There is no cause for alarm," he said. "I myself have been growing more alarmed month by month as the volcano has not erupted. The nature of its volcanic structure is such that it should erupt at a regular three-monthly period. Recently it has lagged behind its period for five months; and I confess to having felt great uneasiness lest the period should stretch to a year...
...world the unforgettable Peg 'o My Heart, has produced only spasmodically and with ill success of recent years. His present contribution is gruesomely numbered with the growing list of entertainments at which first night audiences have this season tittered. It tells of a business woman who grew very rich and remained nevertheless faithful to her inefficient husband...
...with a fine free hand. Choreographer Jack Haskell has set in motion some adept and personable disciples. Ula Sharon, Tessa Kosta, Guy Robertson and a hitherto second-string funny man, Bernard Gorcey, will satisfy the moderately desirous. It is an earnest and expensive effort at light opera. It is rich, vivid, entertaining. But another such as Rose-Marie? Not quite...
...tomorrow will be as follows: 10.15 o'clock, Miss Bernice V. Brown, Dean of Radcliffe College will extend greetings to the gathering; 10.20 o'clock, Royal Mecker, Organizer of Chinese Commission for Study of Social and Economic Questions, will speak on "China Today"; 11.30 o'clock, Raymond T. Rich, Field Secretary, Foreign Policy Association, will speak on "China's Special Tariff Conference"; 1 o'clock Round Table luncheon discussion; 2 o'clock, W. B. Thompson, of the Scripps Foundation for Research in Population Problems, will speak on "Overpopulation in the Oriend"; 3 o'clock, E. F. Wise, economic advisor...
Lady Windermere's Fan. The difficult business of filming Oscar Wilde has been entrusted to Ernest Lubitsch with the assistance of Irene Rich, Ronald Coleman, Bert Lytell, May McAvoy. Perhaps the most exceptionally difficult task of the cinema is the transference to the screen of drawing-room comedy. Mr. Lubitsch has done it about as well as one could wish...