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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name of Ivy Lee, richest publicist in the land, is known to the greenest cub reporter (TIME, Aug. 7, 1933). Yet few newsmen ever saw him, few understood him, most resented or mistrusted him. Yet no one could deny his claim that he never asked a newspaper editor to print anything. On the other hand, newsmen well knew that Ivy Lee would give out just what information he considered helpful to his clients, and no more...
...with Tripoli. Seven other seagoing relatives joined the Confederate Navy. His maternal grandfather, John S. Harden, was Secretary & Treasurer of Western Maryland Railroad. A sister of Upton's mother married John R. Bland, founder of U. S. Fidelity & Guaranty Co. and one of Baltimore's richest men. In Baltimore, Upton Sinclair was born 56 years ago last month. His father was a ne'er-do-well traveling salesman, much addicted to the bottle. The spectacle of his ''good and gentle-souled father" drinking himself to death made Sinclair a life-long Prohibitionist. Nor does...
...Cardinal Pacelli was welcomed off his ship by Argentina's President Augustin P. Justo. Escorted in a coach through four miles of people-packed streets, Cardinal Pacelli stopped briefly in the Cathedral. Then he went to the sumptuous mansion of the Countess of Olmo, Argentina's richest woman landowner. There he occupied an austere apartment, containing, at his request, the minimum of necessary furniture. In the centre of Palermo Park, one of the world's largest, was erected a great cross, 100 ft. high, of white stucco, with great altars on all four sides. There Cardinal Pacelli...
...Lubitsch version, Captain Danilo (Maurice Chevalier) is dispatched from Marshovia to Paris to marry his country's richest widow (Jeanette MacDonald) lest she impoverish the royal treasury by marrying a foreigner. He goes to Maxim's for a farewell debauch, makes love to a cocotte who turns out to be the widow in disguise. Meeting her again at a diplomatic reception, he finds it impossible to convince her that his affection is sincere until he has been convicted of treason for failing in his mission...
Currently exhibited in the U. S. and recommended by most able critics are: One Night of Love, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, The Richest Girl in the World, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Last Gentleman, The Affairs of Cellini, Belle of the Nineties, Our Daily Bread, Treasure Island...