Word: ritz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other respects The Music Goes 'Round has little novelty to recommend it beyond the presence in the cast of Harry Richman, whose Times Square baritone and face of a dissolute mastiff have not been on display for cinemaddicts since Putting on the Ritz in 1930. He is a song & dance man who salvages a troupe of cheap melodrama actors from a Mississippi River showboat, puts them in his Broadway production, gets remorse when the audience laughs at the heroine (Rochelle Hudson...
...Treasury also operates the Ritz of relief projects for artists, known as the Treasury Relief Art Project. TRAP's director is Olin Dows, a bristle-haired young socialite painter from Duchess County, N. Y. He has been given $550,000 with which to provide jobs for no more than 400 artists from relief rolls, to be chosen for artistic ability alone. Already TRAP artists look down their noses at their WPA brethren...
Friends of Carol II excused his London spree by saying that his Jewish mistress Magda Lupescu, whom he left behind in Paris, exerts a "motherly influence" upon the King, and that with this suddenly removed his "boyish and highly susceptible nature" got out of hand. At the Ritz in Paris the King soon sobered. "I do not believe war is imminent," he wisely told correspondents. "In fact, I am confident peace can be maintained. In this respect I have great hopes for the reign of Edward VIII. He is a man endowed with rare equilibrium - rare equilibrium ! My own country...
Emile Dubiel was elected football captain in the Ritz Hotel suite of George White, the "Scandals" producer...
...said he would give me a lift back to my house in the Pound. There was some more people in the car with him but we let them out down the road a piece and Raymond Meade says to me: 'Let's go to the Little Ritz and get something...