Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sacred promise was made in Detroit one night last week. The Jew Sender ben Henie swore before Jehovah that, if his unborn child should be a girl, he would marry her to the son of his faithful neighbor Nissen. But Nissen died leaving his son poor while Sender grew rich and increasingly greedy. The holy promise was broken, just as it was in Sholom Ansky's mystical drama. This time The Dybbuk was having its U. S. premiere as an opera, which has had considerable success during the past two years in Europe. The music was by Italian Composer...
...Talmud and the cabalistic mysticism which used to be feared by all good Jews. By prayers and fasting Hanan had hoped finally to win Sender's daughter Leah. Instead he dropped dead calling on the unholy powers as Sender appeared, rowdily announcing Leah's betrothal to a rich merchant...
Almost everyone but the jury which frees her seems to believe that Mrs. Ames (Madeleine Carroll) shot and killed her rich husband. An assistant district attorney (George Brent) is so convinced of it that he denounces the jury, gets jailed for contempt of court. Mrs. Ames's dowager mother-in-law (Beulah Bondi) makes the murder a pretext for taking possession of Mrs. Ames's small son. Acting from thoroughly scrambled motives, the assistant district attorney performs some sleuthing while the not particularly bright young widow makes a mess of acting as her own counsel in a court...
...mistresses and markets, she never took long to get her bearings. A shrewd bargainer, she traveled and boarded thriftily, got many a free meal from gallant or hospitable foreigners. Whenever her money-belt grew thin she had no trouble getting a pleasant, well-paid job with some rich family, in London, Paris, Antibes, Cairo, Bombay, Barcelona, Madrid. Determined but optimistic, she took the rough with the smooth, enjoyed...
...AWAY BLACKBIRD-Jerrard Tickell -Morrow ($2.50). Open-air love story about a clean-cut, strangely noble Irishman and a Viennese beauty who married a rich rake to pay her daddy's bills...