Word: richest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of last month Vincent Astor and Raymond Moley shuttled between Hyde Park and Manhattan. To the President, his richest friend and his ablest adviser brought word that Business was developing a bad case of nerves at the New Deal's uncertainties. Back in town Editor Moley wrote inspired reassurances in Today and Mr. Astor closeted himself with one tycoon after another to relate how things were going to come out all right in the end. The biggest news that Mr. Astor brought back from the throne room was that President Roosevelt was going to make Bernard Mannes ("Bernie...
...Richest Girl in the World (RKO). Dorothy Hunter (Miriam Hopkins) is a girl of fabulous wealth whose upbringing has been so secluded that no newspaper morgue contains a picture of her since infancy. This makes it easy for her to insure her privacy by impersonating her private secretary (Fay Wray), having her secretary impersonate Dorothy Hunter. When the young man Dorothy loves (Joel McCrea) appears, one deception leads to another. To make sure that the young man cares for her and not the Hunter fortune, Dorothy encourages him to make love to the secretary. Equipped with more common sense than...
Eighteen years ago, Mary Pickford made her admirers weep with Poor Little Rich Girl. The Richest Girl in the World, an adult variation of the same theme, keeps its tongue in its cheek. It is a charming, energetic comedy, which should please the majority of cinemaddicts and offend no one except the Huttons and Prince Mdivani...
Tight Britches (by John Taintor Foote and Hubert Hayes; Laurence Rivers, Inc., producer) pries into the sexual problems of a handsome young North Carolina mountaineer (Shepperd Strudwick) whom neither God nor the girls can let alone. Off and on he turns down the prettiest wench (Joanna Roos) and the richest heiress in the hills (Virginia Milne) and reiterates his call to preach the Word. Finally the strumpet's father takes up his squirrel rifle and puts a bullet through the novice preacher's heart. Sighs the boy's aunt: "You was too big for your britches...
Rain made the 6½-furlong straightaway that cuts diagonally across the main track at Belmont Park, N. Y. a brown belt of mud as 14 2-year-olds were saddled for the richest race in the world, the $100,000 Futurity. At the start, almost out of sight of the grandstand, Rosemont took the lead. Balladier, Chance Sun and Plat Eye caught Rosemont as the field crossed the main track. Then Joseph E. Widener's Chance Sun shot out ahead, opened a gap of four lengths between himself and Colonel Edward R. Bradley's Balladier...